Cartography

GRASS GIS and Cartography

• For graphical examples, see the cartography screenshots page

Using ps.map as cartographic engine

• WxGUI Cartographic Composer is an graphical user interface to ps.map.

• Simple ps.map examples (Spearfish dataset)

• Example showing all standard vareas fill pattern hatches. (Spearfish dataset)

• ps.map example demonstrating a scripted flood risk map

• Thematic maps of Belgium

• Create graph paper ready for printing.

• ps.map cartographic output examples

• Some screenshots:

Display monitors

In addition to the hardcopy plots you can make with the ps.map command and its wxGUI Cartographic Composer), in GRASS 7 the d.barscale module can draw a number of styles of bar scale and north arrows directly in the live GIS display monitor; in GRASS 6.4.3+ the north arrows can be drawn on the monitor with the d.graph module or the d.mark addon module and the appropriate symbol. Style, text placement (or none), distance units, color, font, and fontsize can be controlled. Here are some examples:

Using GMT

• Export to the GMT software package for publication quality cartography

See also

• GIS_Concepts#Geodesy_and_Cartography
• Marine_Science#Mapping_and_Cartography
• Getting Real: Reflecting on the New Look of National Park Service Maps - nice paper about realistic cartography