[GRASS-user] Re: visualising high latitude regions

[Brent Wood]

Yep, GRASS can do it that way, I suggest you look at GMT (http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu) for quality map production & cartography...

OGR now supports GMT vector  (multiline) output, so it is easy to convert data to GMT format for plotting.

Cheers

   Brent Wood

Brent Wood
DBA/GIS consultant
NIWA, Wellington
New Zealand
>>> Wouter <wouter.buytaert at scarlet.be> 12/17/08 7:23 AM >>>

Answer to my own question:

- have your data in UTM
- make a grid in a latlong location with v.mkgrid
- reproject the grid to your UTM location with v.proj
- visualise the grid over your data of interest
- add labels with the latlong coordinates

cheers
wouter


On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Wouter wrote:

> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:46:47 -0300 (CLST)
> From: Wouter <wouter.buytaert at scarlet.be>
> To: grass-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: visualising high latitude regions
> 
>
> Hi all,
>
> is there a way in GRASS to draw latlong projection data with a non-straight 
> coordinate grid? Something like this: 
> <http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas/chile.gif>
>
> Particularly for high latitudes such as Patagonia, a straight grid gives a 
> lot of distortion.
>
> Any suggestions to do this in other software are welcome. I even don't know 
> if ArcGIS does this.
>
> thanks
> wouter
>
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