Rich Shepard wrote > On Sat, 7 Jul 2018, Micha Silver wrote: > >> When it comes to visualizing your results on some basemap, I'd warmly >> recommend switching to QGIS and preparing your map layouts in the QGIS >> map >> composer. You have access to all your GRASS maps thru the QGIS GRASS >> provider, and you can use the QGIS plugin "QuickMapServices" to have >> access to several online WMS services for a choice of background maps. > > Micha, > > I've not before had need to learn qgis. Yes, it can apparently do a > 'better' job of map publishing than can grass, but that's not what I was > wanting to do. > > When I view a project's area on Google-Earth my reading of instructions > and GE-associated web pages suggests there are two options for saving the > view: as a bit-mapped .jpg (which can be converted to .png) without any > associated geographic coordinates or as a point vector of a designated > 'place' saved as a .kml file. > > I wanted to learn if there's a way of saving the GE view as a > georeferenced .kml that could be imported into grass and draped over a > shaded DEM or used as an underlay with grass vector maps on top. My > understanding is there there is no way to do this. > > Thanks, > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > grass-user mailing list
> [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user If you're interested in kml superoverlay, a starting point may be e.g. http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/gdal-dev-Should-GDAL-handle-this-KML-superoverlay-td5293758.html ----- best regards Helmut -- Sent from: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Grass-Users-f3884509.html _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
