Thanks very much Moritz, It's really good that you have been able to do this even with all the other things needed at the *real* job.
I know how it goes sometimes. I wasn't able to do much for over a year. Now I'm facing similar time crunches in the immediate future. Michael On Feb 23, 2010, at 10:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:12:20 +0000 (UTC) > From: Moritz Lennert <[email protected]> > Subject: [GRASS-dev] Re: d.vect.thematic > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Michael Barton <Michael.Barton <at> asu.edu> writes: > >> >> I agree with Martin...I think. But maybe rewriting the current script and > getting rid of the xmon stuff >> would get us 90% of the way there. I'm wondering if what should be done is to > just rewrite the point/line >> parts of the script and leave the choropleth maps to d.thematic.area. > d.thematic.area has a few rough >> edges, but overall it is a powerful tool. >> >> A reason to make a script that includes the point/line thematic mapping AND > wraps d.thematic.area into one >> tool is to get the legend. Currently d.thematic.area writes d.graph > instructions for the legend. A >> script could grab those and turn them into a nice legend in a wxPython >> canvas. > Or, I suppose we could just >> write a separate script to do that. > > Sorry, I had to make priorities at work and have been very absent from > grass-dev in the last year. I'll try to find some time to be a bit more > present > in the future. > > Concerning d.thematic.area/line/point: It's good that d.thematic.area is > finally tested a bit. I know it is still in beta state at best, but I hope > that > someone a bit knowledgeable can fairly quickly smooth out some of the rough > edges. > > Over half a year ago I mentioned that I had actually started working on > d.thematic.linepoint (name open to discussion obviously ;-) ), but that it > still needed work. Unfortunately, I have not found the time to touch it since > (the problem being that I normally need a few days in a row to really get into > the programming mode again). Martin suggested I post the code as is to svn, > but > I was a bit hesitant as I think it needs a bit more work before it can be > shared. I will see if I can find time this week to work on it, otherwise I'll > just submit the code as is... > > Moritz _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
