[GRASS-user] generalize a map of points

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Friday 17 October 2008, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:40 PM, José María Michia
>
> <jose.maria.michia at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I have a map of cities. I want to draw labels using city names, but,
> > some generalization is needed. In other words, some labels overlap
> > with other labels.
>
> You need v.label.sa:
> http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/branches/develbranch_6/vector/v.l
>abel.sa
> http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/branches/develbranch_6/vector/v.l
>abel.sa/description.html
>
> For whatever reason it is not enabled in GRASS 6.4.svn !?

Any ideas on why? Wasn't this a Google SOC project that was completed?

Cheers,

Dylan


> In future, I hope that someone integrates the new:
> PAL - cartographic label placement library
> http://geosysin.iict.ch/trac/wiki/Index4extJPAL
>
> which has been recently integrated into gvSIG. The developers are
> interested to get it integrated into GRASS, too.
>
> Markus
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