[GRASS-user] GRASSplot: a tool for plotting GRASS maps with Python (Matplotlib and Basemap)

Andy Wickert wickert at colorado.edu
Wed Oct 16 08:34:40 PDT 2013


Hi Nikos,

Thanks for trying out the example and for the links, and please let me know
if there is anything on your wish list for what should be included.

Cheers,

Andy


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Andrew D. Wickert
PhD Candidate
INSTAAR & Geological Sciences
University of Colorado at Boulder


On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Nikos Alexandris
<nik at nikosalexandris.net>wrote:

> Andy Wickert wrote:
>
> > Dear GRASS users and developers,
> >
> > In order to create consistent and attractive figures that combine the
> > computational and data management abilities of GRASS GIS with the very
> > developed set of plotting tools provided by Python's Matplotlib (and
> > Basemap toolkit), I wrote a small module to automate Python plotting of
> > GRASS GIS data.
> >
> > It currently works only for lat/lon locations (with Basemap doing the
> > projection). It works well for rasters, but has some issues with vector
> > extraction. I'll be working on it intermittently, but have now posted it
> to
> > my GitHub.
> >
> > Code at:
> > https://github.com/awickert/GRASSplot
> >
> > Basemap (Python) main page and gallery:
> > http://matplotlib.org/basemap/
> > http://matplotlib.org/basemap/users/examples.html
> >
> > Hope some of you find this useful!
>
> Thank you Andy.
>
> The "NorthAmerica" example works for me (under Funtoo, grass64).  I've
> seen a
> couple of the examples in the above mentioned link.  If this project works
> out
> as you plan, it'll be really very nice.  I only would like to point out to
> the
> following Q&As which might be of your interest (as I was, coincidentally,
> skimming through them today):
>
> - <
> http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/3083/what-makes-a-map-beautiful/4412#4412
> >
>
> - <
> http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/3087/what-makes-a-map-be-classed-as-badly-designed
> >
>
> Nikos
>
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