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Serial Number 2789
Subject WISH creating legends for vector feature
Area wish6
Queue grass
Requestors wqual@gmx.de
Owner none
Status open
Last User Contact Mon Nov 21 16:56:07 2005 (3 yr ago)
Current Priority 30
Final Priority 70
Due No date assigned
Last Action Mon Nov 21 16:56:07 2005 (3 yr ago)
Created Mon Dec 6 10:10:31 2004 (4 yr ago)

Transaction History Ticket 2789


Mon, Dec 6 2004 10:10:31    Request created by guest  
Subject: WISH creating legends for vector feature

Platform: GNU/Linux/i386
grass obtained from: Other (CDROM etc)
grass binary for platform: Downloaded precompiled Binaries

Yet, I did not find a possibility to create a legend for vector themes. Is there
any possibility to create such legends (not by converting vector themes into
raster data and then using d.legend)? 
Is is possilble to create symbols for vector themes? 
For future development, import-tools for legend-definitions (e.g. *avl,...) would
be great.

Greetings,
Wolfgang
Sun, Nov 20 2005 12:37:06    Area changed to wish6 by msieczka  
Sun, Nov 20 2005 13:11:38    Mail sent by msieczka  
Wolfgang wrote:

> Yet, I did not find a possibility to create a legend for vector themes. Is
> there any possibility to create such legends (not by converting vector
> themes into raster data and then using d.legend)? Is is possilble to create
> symbols for vector themes? 


Some functionality for creating legends for vectors is in d.vect.thematic.
However, I agree it is needed to abe able to display legends for vector layers
in a more convenient way. There was an attempt towards supporting vectors in
d.legend this by Jachym Cepicky some time ago,
http://les-ejk.cz/~jachym/programs/grass/d.legend.tgz. However, this is still
not fully operational. The latest news on this issue come from 01.11.2005:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/9382

Can anybody say what is the staus now?

> For future development, import-tools for legend-definitions (e.g. *avl,...)
> would be great.

It "only" requires somebody interested in developing the tool. However I'm
wondering how portable would be the pattern definitions which (I guess, I'm
not an ArcView user) are contained in avl? Anyway, importing color defintions
alone into GRASSRGB column could be possible I guess.

Some AVL examples:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/of00-358/mapping/sediment/texture.avl
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-002/data/fgb_gis/caco3.avl

Maciek
Mon, Nov 21 2005 16:56:07    Mail sent by michael.barton@asu.edu  
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Subject Re: [GRASS5] [bug #2789] (grass) WISH creating legends for vector feature
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I agree much with the need for having a way to make nice vector legends,
like we can with rasters. But thinking about it for awhile, it seems to me
that legends for vectors are somewhat different from legends for rasters in
concept--i.e., what most people will want to show with a legend. If we look
at other GIS software that deals with vectors pretty well (MapInfo, ArcView,
QGIS, and others) most of the time legends will be used with some kind of
thematic mapping. 

So it might be more useful to transform d.vect.thematic into a C-module, add
the option to display unique values (i.e., one for each vector), and build
nice vector legend capabilities in that context.

Michael
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> From: Maciek Sieczka via RT <grass-bugs@intevation.de>
> Reply-To: Maciek Sieczka via RT <grass-bugs@intevation.de>
> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 13:11:38 +0100 (CET)
> To: <wqual@gmx.de>
> Cc: <grass5@grass.itc.it>
> Subject: [GRASS5] [bug #2789] (grass) WISH creating legends for vector feature
> 
> Wolfgang wrote:
> 
>> Yet, I did not find a possibility to create a legend for vector themes. Is
>> there any possibility to create such legends (not by converting vector
>> themes into raster data and then using d.legend)? Is is possilble to create
>> symbols for vector themes?
> 
> 
> Some functionality for creating legends for vectors is in d.vect.thematic.
> However, I agree it is needed to abe able to display legends for vector layers
> in a more convenient way. There was an attempt towards supporting vectors in
> d.legend this by Jachym Cepicky some time ago,
> http://les-ejk.cz/~jachym/programs/grass/d.legend.tgz. However, this is still
> not fully operational. The latest news on this issue come from 01.11.2005:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/9382
> 
> Can anybody say what is the staus now?
> 
>> For future development, import-tools for legend-definitions (e.g. *avl,...)
>> would be great.
> 
> It "only" requires somebody interested in developing the tool. However I'm
> wondering how portable would be the pattern definitions which (I guess, I'm
> not an ArcView user) are contained in avl? Anyway, importing color defintions
> alone into GRASSRGB column could be possible I guess.
> 
> Some AVL examples:
> http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/of00-358/mapping/sediment/texture.avl
> http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-002/data/fgb_gis/caco3.avl
> 
> Maciek
> 
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