[GRASS-user] help needed with creation of (printable) maps

[William Kyngesburye]

Illustrator has a plugin that can import, export and help annotate and  
draw GIS data: MAPublisher, by Avenza.  A bit pricy, but if  
Illustrator is required, that will do it. I use it a lot with exported  
GRASS (and, er, other) rasters and vectors (geotiff and shapefile).

On Nov 8, 2007, at 9:24 AM, WolfgangZ wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> this is slightly off topic, but at least Grass should be used to  
> create the base data for maps.
>
> We want to create a map of a part of a mountain. It will consist of  
> several layers (DOP, height lines, polygon lines, coordinate  
> grid, ...). I've never done something like this and I hope that I  
> can get some reccomendations regarding the work flow and suitable  
> software to use.
>
> One big problem is that one of my friends prefers to use Adobe  
> Illustrator to create one of these layers, but as far as I know  
> Illustrator can't handle anything else as paper units and therefore  
> all georeferenciation is lost. The advantage of Illustrator would be  
> that it is easy to colorize (or fill) areas and create nice looking  
> plots.
>
> An other task is to create (a kind of) atlas where parts of the big  
> map fits on single A4 sheets. Are there any possibilities to cut out  
> parts of a big map and automatically create a grid (with numbers at  
> the border)?
>
> I had a short look at gmt, but I find it quite cryptic to use.
> Any suggestions are welcome.
>
> Regards
> Wolfgang
>
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