[GRASS-user] Map production recommendations

Vaclav Petras wenzeslaus at gmail.com
Fri May 12 17:03:43 PDT 2023


For some use cases, you can consider the m.printws addon. It is an
alternative to ps.map (both GUI and the command line) based on the standard
d-commands.

https://grass.osgeo.org/grass-stable/manuals/addons/m.printws.html

Since we are listing options here, GMT experienced quite some revamp. I
would curious if anyone here has tried it lately.


On Fri, 12 May 2023 at 09:01, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 12 May 2023, Massimiliano Alvioli wrote:
>
> > I am not sure what can be done to facilitate the use of ps.map, but I can
> > tell that browsing GRASS mapsets from QGIS to create nice map figures is
> > the easiest thing to do. If you browse your "grassdata" folder from the
> > file explorer in QGIS, you must scroll down until you see GRASS icons for
> > each location. Then you can navigate to your mapset and display your
> > raster/vectors in QGIS, and use the map creator (?) tool to prepare
> > figures.
>
> Massi,
>
> ps.map has always been a low priority for improvements. While it took a lot
> of time to produce high quality output, the presention to non-technical
> decision-makers was highly satisfying. Now I have several projects needing
> such images so I installed qgis and need to learn how to use it for this
> purpose.
>
> Your instructions are really helpful and I'll apply them today to produce
> the 3 maps needed immediately.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rich
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