Re: [GRASS-user] Export/define region with Map Scale

2010-03-02 Thread Franz Schiller
Greetings Hamish > yes. the ps.map module knows its output plots will be on paper, > and it knows how big that piece of paper is. therefore it can > correctly calculate and use the scale for PostScript (and so > PDF format too) hardcopies. > > Ok. So I just need to define the scale-output . Seem

Re: [GRASS-user] Export/define region with Map Scale

2010-03-01 Thread Hamish
Franz Schiller wrote: > At GIS Map Display window it's possible to > define map scale in the bottom bar. note that it is probably wrong. in order for it to be right the exact distance across your monitor would have to be known as Scale is the ratio of distance on map to distance on ground. If the

[GRASS-user] Export/define region with Map Scale

2010-03-01 Thread Franz Schiller
Greetings At GIS Map Display window it's possible to define map scale in the bottom bar. I would like to know is: 1- Is it possible to export and plot maps (rasters/vectorials) with this map scale definition? 2- Is it possible to set region using this map scale definition in order to have by defau