On Tuesday 02 March 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > > I have found that with a certain amount of smoothing (r.param.scale , > > r.neighbors) and the right color scheme (r.colors [-e]) one can generate > > pretty nice looking maps that display overall trends. > > Dylan, > > I used r.param.scale extensively; will learn r.neighbors. > > > One thing to remember-- most GRASS modules are geared towards analysis-- > > making pretty maps comes second. > > That's very true. However, when the analytical results need to be > presented to non-technical decision-makers (lawyers, regulators, > politicians) it's vital that the presentations be visually attractive. It > adds credibility to the analytical results and, like typeset docuements > rather than word processed ones, makes them more easily accepted. >
I agree 100% -- All I was getting at was that the nice map-making requires some creativity. If you have some time check out GMT-- it can generate some very nice looking maps in PS/EPS format. There are some scripts on the GRASS add-ons wiki page with some ideas. Cheers, Dylan -- Dylan Beaudette Soil Resource Laboratory http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/ University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user