Opened 10 years ago
Last modified 6 years ago
#2329 new enhancement
wishlist for some d.* modules and ps.map
| Reported by: | veroandreo | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 7.6.2 |
| Component: | Default | Version: | unspecified |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| CPU: | Unspecified | Platform: | Linux |
Description
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
Change History (11)
follow-up: 2 comment:1 by , 10 years ago
comment:2 by , 10 years ago
Replying to mlennert:
Replying to 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 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
comment:5 by , 8 years ago
| Milestone: | 7.2.1 → 7.2.2 |
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comment:6 by , 7 years ago
| Milestone: | 7.2.2 → 7.4.0 |
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All enhancement tickets should be assigned to 7.4 milestone.
comment:8 by , 6 years ago
| Milestone: | 7.4.1 → 7.4.2 |
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comment:9 by , 6 years ago
| Milestone: | 7.4.2 → 7.6.0 |
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All enhancement tickets should be assigned to 7.6 milestone.
Replying to veroandreo:
Note that g.gui.psmap is an incomplete graphical frontend to ps.map. The module offers many more options.
Not sure I understand exactly what you mean by "legends representing different categories", but you can check out these example scripts, notably the 'label' option in the 'varea' definitions.
Moritz