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 (available with true-north rotation and line thickness settings). 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