[Qgis-user] Grid in print layout

[Ricardo Filipe Soares Garcia da]

Hi
I'm also begging for such a tool. Like you, I've been manually
creating these grids for printing purposes only. It gets painful when
I want to display the coordinates in the bottom and right of the grid,
having to create several layers... In fact I've been looking for a
quick way to add them in various open source gis tools and came up
short. So far GRASS is the only that I've seen that allows one to
create a such a grid in an easy way (I've tried Qgis, gvSIG, uDIG,
OpenJUMP, Kosmo and GRASS). On the downside, with GRASS I have to
create a new region and mapset and import my files, which is also time
consuming.

I am considering learning gmt, mainly to be able to draw these grids
on top of my maps... (though I am sure it will be useful for other
things as well)

So, to conclude, it would be really cool if Qgis had such a feature!



On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Martin Bolte<mail at silico.net> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have to make lots of maps as PDF-files and need to put a grid overlay
> on each map. Creating all these with the plugin "graticule creator" or
> making them via ftools - research tools - vector grid is a tedious task
> as I need to do a lot of steps in order to have the correct coordinates
> of the grid lines displayed in the map layout.
>
> Has anybody a clue on how to speed this up?
> There should be some development on a tool allowing to insert such a
> grid directly within the print composer dialogue.
>
> Kind regards
>
>
> Martin
>
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