wishlist for some d.* modules and ps.map

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Reported by veroandreo on 9 Jun 2014 17:39 UTC Hi everybody

I've been making some maps these days for a poster presentation and, if I may, i have a "little" wishlist for some display modules:

• an option for background color would be highly appreciated for legend, grid labels, north arrow and text in the GUI (d.text has this "bgcolor" option in command line but it is not available in the GUI)
• also the possibility to add legends for vector maps would be really nice to have (i saw this was listed for GSoC)...

There's no option for legend background color in g.gui.psmap, either, nor for adding legends of vector maps representing different categories. I mean, there's a vector legend option in psmap, but if you are interested in polygons with different categories and you want to add a legend for that, there's no way to do it (unless you convert the vector map to a raster map, which was what I had to do)...

Don't know how much work may be required, but IMHO, this would make cartographic composition in our favourite GIS a bit more friendly and customizable.

Thanks a lot! :)

Vero

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Linux

Migrated-From: https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/2329

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Comment by mlennert on 10 Jun 2014 13:49 UTC Replying to [ticket:2329 veroandreo]:

There's no option for legend background color in g.gui.psmap, either

Note that g.gui.psmap is an incomplete graphical frontend to ps.map. The module offers many more options.

, nor for adding legends of vector maps representing different categories. I mean, there's a vector legend option in psmap, but if you are interested in polygons with different categories and you want to add a legend for that, there's no way to do it (unless you convert the vector map to a raster map, which was what I had to do)...

Not sure I understand exactly what you mean by "legends representing different categories", but you can check out these http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~mlennert/grass/psmap/index.html example scripts, notably the 'label' option in the 'varea' definitions.

Moritz

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Comment by veroandreo on 11 Jun 2014 03:20 UTC Replying to [comment:1 mlennert]:

Replying to [ticket:2329 veroandreo]:

There's no option for legend background color in g.gui.psmap, either

Note that g.gui.psmap is an incomplete graphical frontend to ps.map. The module offers many more options.

Yeah, I've also used ps.map, but there's no bgcolor (or similar) option under colortable. I would also need a logarithmic scale in the raster legend, but there's no option for that, neither for setting specific tick-marks (perhaps this should go to a separate ticket??).

, nor for adding legends of vector maps representing different categories. I mean, there's a vector legend option in psmap, but if you are interested in polygons with different categories and you want to add a legend for that, there's no way to do it (unless you convert the vector map to a raster map, which was what I had to do)...

Not sure I understand exactly what you mean by "legends representing different categories", but you can check out these http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~mlennert/grass/psmap/index.html example scripts, notably the 'label' option in the 'varea' definitions.

This I haven't noticed. Thanks much for the examples and for pointing that out :)

Vero

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Comment by neteler on 5 May 2016 14:08 UTC Milestone renamed

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Comment by neteler on 28 Dec 2016 15:04 UTC Ticket retargeted after milestone closed

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Modified by @landam on 5 May 2017 20:40 UTC

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Comment by @landam on 1 Sep 2017 20:28 UTC All enhancement tickets should be assigned to 7.4 milestone.

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Comment by neteler on 26 Jan 2018 11:40 UTC Ticket retargeted after milestone closed

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Modified by neteler on 12 Jun 2018 20:48 UTC

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Comment by @landam on 25 Sep 2018 16:51 UTC All enhancement tickets should be assigned to 7.6 milestone.

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Comment by @landam on 25 Jan 2019 21:07 UTC Ticket retargeted after milestone closed