[GRASS-user] Fine-tuning d.vect.thematic and d.legend.vect [SOLVED]

[Markus Neteler]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 1:22 AM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 10 Nov 2018, Markus Neteler wrote:
>
> > Please consider to provide text snippets for the manual pages if your
> > findings are relevant to others as well.
>
> Markus,
>
>    Two points related to ps.map and g.gui.psmap.
>
>    1.) I could not make the desired changes in the maps produced by
> d.vect.thematic or in the legend produced by d.legend so I saved the
> d.legend output to a .csv file and edited that to remove the redundant first
> row and remove the decimals from the ranges. I've nothing to suggest for
> changes to the manual pages (other than some typo corrections, but they're
> very minor.

Please send them to me.

>    2.) Please correct me if I'm wrong in my thinking that ps.map (and the gui
> front end) work well if the maps are added using d.vect and d.rast, but not
> if I'm trying to add a map using d.vect.thematic. I tried to add multiple
> copies of the fish distribution map using d.vect, each with a species' name
> and associated color, but the gui did not like the 'where select = "Bull
> trout" regardless of the '=' sign or using single or double quotation marks.

(i have not much experience here)

>    My previous experiences with g.gui.psmap and ps.map have been with a
> background raster map and a few vector maps, but all maps having the same
> symbol, color, and other attributes.
>
>    I've looed at GMT but that looks like a better choice if one is doing maps
> on a global scale not, for example, a 51 ha project site. I think that qgis
> might be better for complex presentation preparation, but cannot build it on
> this older machine so I'll try on the new desktop server/workstation this
> coming weekend.

Alternative: Use it through docker:
https://hub.docker.com/r/mundialis/docker-qgis3/

It basically behaves like a normal installation from package.

Markus