On 7/19/08, Hamish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > maning sambale wrote: >> I am preparing a country-wide map using ps.map. The region spans 2-3 >> UTM zones although most of the region is covered by one zone but I >> still need the data at the fringes covered in another zone. >> In order to do that I used a lon/lat projection. However, ps.map >> will not produce a scalebar for lon/lat projection for good reasons. >> >> I know this isn't good practice. Any Ideas how I can >> produce a "scalebar" for lon/lat? > > my advice is: don't. overlay a grid or geogrid instead. with at least > two grid lines for both lat + long the reader can see the scale. Thanks!
> > you can reproject everything into the central UTM zone, but the outside > parts may start to be distorted. if only going +/- 1 zone you may get away > with it. I followed this advice and used a central UTM zone. > Hamish > > > > > > > -- |---------|----------------------------------------------------------| | __.-._ |"Ohhh. Great warrior. Wars not make one great." -Yoda | | '-._"7' |"Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden| | /'.-c |Linux registered user #402901, http://counter.li.org/ | | | /T |http://esambale.wikispaces.com| | _)_/LI |---------|----------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user