Re: [GRASS-user] Map production recommendations

2023-05-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 13 May 2023, Eric Patton wrote: It stands for Generic Mapping Tools. It’s excellent software, but not for the faint of heart, IMO. Very steep learning curve, but the payoff is worth it. https://www.generic-mapping-tools.org/ Eric, Thanks. I'll take a look. Regards, Rich

Re: [GRASS-user] Map production recommendations

2023-05-13 Thread Eric Patton via grass-user
It stands for Generic Mapping Tools. It’s excellent software, but not for the faint of heart, IMO. Very steep learning curve, but the payoff is worth it. https://www.generic-mapping-tools.org/ ~ Eric. On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 2:41 PM, Rich Shepard <[rshep...@appl-ecosys.com](mailto:On Sat, May

Re: [GRASS-user] Map production recommendations

2023-05-13 Thread Hernán De Angelis
Den 2023-05-13 kl. 19:41, skrev Rich Shepard: Since we are listing options here, GMT experienced quite some revamp. I would curious if anyone here has tried it lately. What's GMT other than the deprecated Greenwich Mean Time? Generic Mapping Tools https://www.generic-mapping-tools.org/ ___

Re: [GRASS-user] Map production recommendations

2023-05-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 12 May 2023, Vaclav Petras wrote: For some use cases, you can consider the m.printws addon. It is an alternative to ps.map (both GUI and the command line) based on the standard d-commands. https://grass.osgeo.org/grass-stable/manuals/addons/m.printws.html Vaclav, Thanks for the pointe

Re: [GRASS-user] Map production recommendations

2023-05-12 Thread Vaclav Petras
For some use cases, you can consider the m.printws addon. It is an alternative to ps.map (both GUI and the command line) based on the standard d-commands. https://grass.osgeo.org/grass-stable/manuals/addons/m.printws.html Since we are listing options here, GMT experienced quite some revamp. I wou

Re: [GRASS-user] Map production recommendations

2023-05-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 12 May 2023, Massimiliano Alvioli wrote: I am not sure what can be done to facilitate the use of ps.map, but I can tell that browsing GRASS mapsets from QGIS to create nice map figures is the easiest thing to do. If you browse your "grassdata" folder from the file explorer in QGIS, you m

[GRASS-user] Map production recommendations

2023-05-11 Thread Rich Shepard
I've always used ps.map for presentations by writing scripts and using the GUI to place things. It's a long, tedious process (for me, at least) but familiar. I've been told that Qgis can produce nice presentation maps and use grass raster and vector files. I've not used Qgis at all but have just i