[GRASS-user] PS.MAP order of layers

[Anna Kratochvílová]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Timothy wrote:
>> I am using rasters, areas, borders, and points in an eps file
>> using ps.map.  I want the points to be placed under an area
>> layer, because I only want the relevant points to a specific
>> country to be seen.  Not matter what order I put the
>> commands in (vpoints before or after varea), the points appear
>> on top.  I am running GRASS 6.4 in the Linux environment.
>> Any thoughts on what to do to make this work?
>
> add "masked y" to the vpoints instruction.
>
> (the help page for ps.map is somewhat misleading about what the
> masked instruction really does, and if the ordering works among
> different feature types)
>

I haven't noticed it before. In my point of view it's a bug. Either
the help page or better ps.map should be changed. Ordering seems to
work for areas and line layers so is there any reason why point layers
behave in a different way?

Anna


> #spearfish example
> g.region -d
> ps.map out=test.ps << EOF
> raster elevation.dem
> vareas fields
>  end
> vpoints archsites
>  masked y
>  end
> end
> EOF
>
> gv test.ps
>
>
>
> as a last resort you can use v.select to crop out the non-
> overlapping points (maybe use its geos op=disjoint option or
> invert the area with v.in.region+v.overlay first); or try
> v.overlay on its own for "point not in polygon".
>
>
> Hamish
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