[GRASS-user] BAnk and ditch symbols in grass (or other Open Source GIS)

[Dr Tim Southern]

Hi,

I am an archaeologist mainly working within woodlands and need to be be 
able to display in grass of similar GIS the location of woodland banks 
and their associated ditches.  There is a standard set of symbols for 
this but is there a way of actually getting GRASS or other GIS to 
implement these.

If not has anyone any ideas on how to write the appropriate code or 
adapt other code to do it.  My initial thoughts were to digitize the 
location of the features to a vector map.  As a vector it has direction 
and therefore if a standard was adopted say for example if a ditch 
existed it was on the rhs of the vector and the dashes marking the bank 
could then be placed on the lhs.

Eventually the information about the profile of the bank and ditch 
needs to be analyzed statistically so having the information within a 
data base makes good sense.

Thanks

Tim
Dr Tim Southern
17, Park Close,
Sonning Common,
Oxfordshire.
RG4 9RY
0118 972 1197
0778 453 0776
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