Roger André wrote:
creation. The problem is that GMT "does it all". Without going into
all of what GMT can do, here are a few of the things that it does which
I haven't been able to find an easy way to implement with Mapserver.
3) Creation of color bars (legend) to show the values in a raster data set.
Hmm, dunno...
4) Graticule tick-marks on the edges of the map frame.
No, but I'm thinking about it. Actually, using my Polygons-as-a-margin layer trick twice might work.
Render your map layers then "blank out" the four sides of your map (they're in pixel coords so adjust as necessary):
SIZE 800 600
:
LAYER
NAME "Margin"
TRANSFORM FALSE
STATUS DEFAULT
TYPE POLYGON
CLASS
COLOR 255 255 255
END
FEATURE
POINTS 0 0 0 600 70 600 70 0 0 0 END
POINTS 70 0 70 70 800 70 800 0 70 0 END
POINTS 70 600 800 600 800 530 70 530 70 600 END
POINTS 730 70 730 530 800 530 800 70 730 70 END
END
END
then render your graticule lines (via another LAYER), then use the above technique only
offset a pixel or two to clip back the graticule lines to look like "tics",
then render a layer of graticule anno.
Crude but it might work.
5) Inclusion of a map title.
6) Inclusion of text to describe the map.
Yes you can. Use a LAYER with TRANSFORM FALSE and an in-line FEATURE:
LAYER
NAME title
STATUS DEFAULT
TRANSFORM FALSE
TYPE ANNOTATION
FEATURE
POINTS 4 396 END
TEXT 'This is a Great Map!'
END
CLASS
LABEL
TYPE TRUETYPE
FONT arial
SIZE 8
ANTIALIAS
COLOR 255 255 255
POSITION UR
END
END
END
Good luck,
Brent
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