[GRASS-user] Display of Terrain Perameter Maps

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Dylan Beaudette wrote:

> I have found that with a certain amount of smoothing (r.param.scale ,
> r.neighbors) and the right color scheme (r.colors [-e]) one can generate
> pretty nice looking maps that display overall trends.

Dylan,

   I used r.param.scale extensively; will learn r.neighbors.

> One thing to remember-- most GRASS modules are geared towards analysis--
> making pretty maps comes second.

   That's very true. However, when the analytical results need to be
presented to non-technical decision-makers (lawyers, regulators,
politicians) it's vital that the presentations be visually attractive. It
adds credibility to the analytical results and, like typeset docuements
rather than word processed ones, makes them more easily accepted.

Rich