[GRASS-user] Vector map text legend

[Saber Razmjooei]

How about using Grass Plugin in QGIS to load your vectors and create
legend there?  Not sure how it ties up with your python script.

Cheers
Saber

On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 11:39 +0200, Martin Album Ytre-Eide wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I am looking for a way to make a legend to some vector area maps. The maps contain four different types of areas and are given different names.
> 
> I have made a python script running d.mon, d.vect etc. with the png driver producing about 14 png files, which then is used to create a gif file.
> 
> A way to create a vector legend is to do v.to.rast and use the d.legend from the "dummy" rast - however, I don't see how you can get a legend with text in this way? I don't think you can since raster should have numerical values. You could make a legend without category numbers and try to add the text with d.text, but I don't know if that's a good way of doing things.
> 
> Then there is ps.map which solves this in a nice way - the problem is - I would like to keep the png format. I could just make the legend with ps.map - and add it to my png files with some image tools in python, but I am unsure of the result is worth the effort.
> 
> 
> Any other ideas to do this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Martin Ytre-Eide
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