[GRASS-user] Re: grass-user Digest, Vol 21, Issue 30

[Michael Barton]

On Jan 12, 2008, at 10:00 AM, grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:

> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:49:38 +0100
> From: Christoph Praxmarer <christoph.praxmarer at uibk.ac.at>
> Subject: [GRASS-user] thematic maps
> To: grass-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Message-ID: <200801121149.38388.christoph.praxmarer at uibk.ac.at>
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> Hello,
>
> I'm new to grass and gis in general and for a start I need it for a  
> specific
> purpose. I want to create simple thematic maps. Values assigned to  
> counties
> should be used to create chloropleth and proportional symbols maps.  
> Is there a
> way to do this in grass? Thanks,
>
> Chris
>


In GRASS, use d.vect.thematic (or pick the thematic maps button from  
the GIS Manager toolbar).

OTOH, QGIS will make vector thematic maps from GRASS vector files  
easily.

Michael

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School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

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