[GRASS-user] ps.map & arrow head

[Vincent Bain]

Thank you Hamish for these suggestions,
I'll probably dig in the database direction, in order to create a labels
layer, easy to add in the postscript composition.

Bye,
Vincent

Le jeudi 27 octobre 2011 à 21:51 -0700, Hamish a écrit :
> Vincent wrote:
> > a bit of squeezed with ps.map : is there a simple way to
> > draw arrowheads on top of vector lines in a map composition ?
> 
> you mean like 'd.vect disp=dir' ?  if so, not that I know of.
> 
> > I did not find any option in vlines instruction. Did I miss
> > it ?
> > 
> > Perhaps should I extract tnodes (or fnodes) from the source
> > lines vector, then print arrowheads as symbols with vpoints
> > instruction.
> 
> you should make a new ">" symbol without a tail in case the
> rotational alignment is not perfect, with the center at the
> arrow point.
> 
> > But I can't figure out how I can obtain the angle to rotate
> > symbols the right way, ie finding the azimuth of the last (or
> > first) segment of each line...
> 
> perhaps 'v.to.points dmax=' or v.lrs to set the along-line
> node points. unfortunately there is no doffset= option to go
> with v.to.point's dmax=, as it would be nice to do like
>  dmax=100 doffset=50
> to get midpoints of 100m segments (see also the more complicated
> v.segment module)
> 
> once 100m line segments are created (sorry no exact recipe for
> that comes to mind but it must be possible; maybe together with
> the v.to.points nodes?) you can use v.to.db to get azimuth of
> the line segments uploaded to the line segment vector's DB, then
> use db.execute to attach those to the point vector map, and any
> +90 degree rotation if it is needed. 
> (typically grass uses degrees CCW from the +x axis for rotation)
> 
> > If anyone experienced this, I would be glad to know how you
> > proceeded.
> 
> hopefully the above gives you enough to figure something out.
> if so, please add the trick to the wiki, or maybe we could
> make a script. (ISTR there is something similar for ps.map
> there already, it would be good for things like railroad -+--+-
> lines)
> 
> even better is if there is a postscript trick for this, then
> we could add
> 
> --<--
> --+--
> -->--
> 
> somehow, like adding a  direction=No|yes|tick  instruction to
> vlines. if so we probably want to add a tick_spacing instruction
> too, probably using points as the distance unit for that, 
> defaulting to something like 8mm.
> 
> 
> Hamish
>