[Qgis-user] Grid in print layout

[John C. Tull]

You can also use mapserver to do this. I would recommend looking at  
that before trying GMT. You can use the mapserver export plugin to get  
a template to work from for your finish maps. The grid then becomes  
something as simple as adding a few lines manually to the mapserver  
template. You can output the mapserver to an image format using the  
commandline shp2img.

Here is an example of some code I have used for UTM grids in mapserver  
files.

   LAYER
    NAME "grid"
    METADATA
      "DESCRIPTION" "Grid"
    END
    TYPE LINE
    STATUS default
    CLASS
      NAME "Graticule"
      COLOR 0 114 255	
      LABEL
        COLOR  0 114 255
        FONT 'arial'
        TYPE truetype
        SIZE 20
        POSITION AUTO
        PARTIALS FALSE
        BUFFER 5
        OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
      END
   	END
    PROJECTION
       "init=epsg:26911"
    END

   GRID
    # LABELFORMAT DDMM
    # LABELFORMAT '%gº'  # dec degrees with symbol
    # MAXARCS 10
    # MAXINTERVAL 10
    # MAXSUBDIVIDE 2
     LABELFORMAT '%7.0f m'  # nice if a projected SRS used
     MININTERVAL 1000
   #  MAXSUBDIVIDE 2
   END
END # Layer

FWIW, I have switched to using the map composer in qgis. Although not  
perfect, Marco has done an incredible job developing this part of  
qgis, and I find I can produce very good print-quality maps. I am  
pleased to hear that he will be adding the grid overlay soon!

Regards,
John

On Jul 27, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Ricardo Filipe Soares Garcia da wrote:

> 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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