[GRASS-user] HTMLMAP with grass62

[Paul Van Deusen]

Thanks. I'm not up to doing these ports, but I would have uses for 
HTMLMAP if
if were available.

Glynn Clements wrote:
> Stephan Holl wrote:
>
>   
>>> Where can I find an example of how to use HTMLMAP in grass62.   The 
>>> information I found
>>> was giving examples of its use in grass5.  This required d.area,
>>> which I don't have in grass6.
>>>       
>> AFAIK this is not ported to grass6.2 yet, but I might be wrong.
>> stolen from[0]:
>> [...]
>> d.area - merged to d.vect: HTMLMAP driver doesn't work yet with new
>> d.vect
>>     
>
> It's more accurate to say that the new d.vect doesn't (and cannot)
> work with the HTMLMAP driver.
>
> The HTMLMAP driver works by "trapping" polygon-fill operations. But
> d.vect doesn't use polygon-fill operations; it does its own
> rasterising, and just sends a series of horizontal-line-drawing
> commands to the driver.
>
> As there currently isn't any use for the HTMLMAP driver, it hasn't
> been maintained. If someone ports d.area to the new vector API, I'm
> willing to port the HTMLMAP driver.
>
>