Yep, GRASS can do it that way, I suggest you look at GMT (http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu) for quality map production & cartography...
OGR now supports GMT vector (multiline) output, so it is easy to convert data to GMT format for plotting. Cheers Brent Wood Brent Wood DBA/GIS consultant NIWA, Wellington New Zealand >>> Wouter <wouter.buyta...@scarlet.be> 12/17/08 7:23 AM >>> Answer to my own question: - have your data in UTM - make a grid in a latlong location with v.mkgrid - reproject the grid to your UTM location with v.proj - visualise the grid over your data of interest - add labels with the latlong coordinates cheers wouter On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Wouter wrote: > Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:46:47 -0300 (CLST) > From: Wouter <wouter.buyta...@scarlet.be> > To: grass-user@lists.osgeo.org > Subject: visualising high latitude regions > > > Hi all, > > is there a way in GRASS to draw latlong projection data with a non-straight > coordinate grid? Something like this: > <http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas/chile.gif> > > Particularly for high latitudes such as Patagonia, a straight grid gives a > lot of distortion. > > Any suggestions to do this in other software are welcome. I even don't know > if ArcGIS does this. > > thanks > wouter > _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user NIWA is the trading name of the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research Ltd. _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user