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[http://grass.ibiblio.org/grass61/manuals/html61_user/ps.map.html#vareas ps.map's vector area filling command] will let you set a fill pattern ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatching hatching]). You can create custom patterns. User contributed patterns can be found on this page.
[http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/ps.map.html#vareas ps.map's vector area filling command] will let you set a fill pattern ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatching hatching]). You can create custom patterns. User contributed patterns can be found on this page.


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=== Example use ===
=== Example use ===


* [[Psmap_fill_patterns|Example ps.map script]] showing all standard fill patterns. Uses the [http://grass.ibiblio.org/download/data6.php Spearfish sample dataset].
* [[Psmap_fill_patterns|Example ps.map script]] showing all standard fill patterns. Uses the [http://grass.osgeo.org/download/data6.php Spearfish sample dataset].


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=== Example Pattern files ===
=== Example Pattern files ===


* Standard pattern files can be found in <tt>$GISBASE/etc/paint/patterns/</tt> or from the [http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/grass6/ps/ps.map/patterns/ CVS web interface].
* Standard pattern files can be found in <tt>$GISBASE/etc/paint/patterns/</tt> or from the [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/branches/develbranch_6/ps/ps.map/patterns/ SVN web interface].


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[[Category: ps.map]]

Revision as of 08:19, 3 July 2008

ps.map's vector area filling command will let you set a fill pattern (hatching). You can create custom patterns. User contributed patterns can be found on this page.

Alternative: QGIS will let you load a GRASS map (with the GDAL GRASS-plugin installed) and change the area fill pattern on-screen.


Contributions

Please include a small example graphic. Upload instructions.

Also please include your name and some sort of license information.
e.g. "© 2006 Sara Grassuser, released into the public domain without restriction." This way others may freely improve and further distribute your work (e.g. it can be distributed with the next official GRASS release).

Authoring instructions

Use the ps.map vareas command's pat instruction with the full path to pattern file. The pattern file contains header and simple PS commands. It is similar to EPS but more limited, meaning that while each pattern file is a true EPS file, most EPS files are not usually useful as pattern files because they contain restricted commands. Color and width of patterns are set by fcolor and width instructions until overwritten in the pattern file. The pattern may be scaled with the scale instruction. Several standard hatching patterns are provided in $GISBASE/etc/paint/patterns/. You can also create your own custom pattern files in a text editor.

Example use

vareas fields
  pat $GISBASE/etc/paint/patterns/brick.eps
  where label ~ 'Natl. Forest'
  fcolor green
  end

Example Pattern files

  • Standard pattern files can be found in $GISBASE/etc/paint/patterns/ or from the SVN web interface.

PostScript version of this image (created with ps.map and v.mkgrid)

Vertical line

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%!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-1.2
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 10 10
newpath
5 0 moveto
5 10 lineto
stroke

User contributions

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