Thank you all for your suggestions. I've used qgis quite a bit, it has a nice GUI but it is not very good with pretty maps. I'll give the SVG format, GMT and other graphic softwares a try. But how do you handle large numbers of feature (contour labeling)? It can be pretty tedious if you are going to cycle through various attributes attached to the same features. I think there is a case to be made that there is a gap to be filled. Opensource GIS software (Grass GIS, qGIS, Mapwindow, Saga...etc) could use some enhancement in this department.
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Malte Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > QGIS? > http://www.qgis.org/en.html > > It comes along with a GRASS Plugin so you can use GRASS datasets. > > Malte > > Am 17.08.2010 um 17:56 schrieb kapo coulibaly: > > I've been using opensource GIS for a while (GRASS a lot). But they are all >> very limited when it comes to creating nice maps. I always have to resolve >> to using ArcGIS to put final touches on maps. Anybody has a suggestion for a >> free software to use for map design? >> _______________________________________________ >> grass-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user >> > > > > > >
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