[GRASS-user] hatching

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Natalia Sofina <nsofina at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi everybody!
>
> I have a small question... Is there a possibility to visualize objects with
> any hatching in GRASS GIS? I use usually different colors for
> differentiating objects with different characteristics in a map. But I need
> to symbolize the objects with the Grayscale color mode, what is rather
> difficult with numerous object classes...

You can use "ps.map" for this:

http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/ps.map.html
-> pat - full path to pattern file. [...] Several standard hatching
patterns are provide [...]

The wxGUI provides a graphical frontend for it.

Hope this helps a bit,
Markus