Hi all,
God, this will be great! For me it's really good that this feature will finally arrive. No more maps "somewhere over the world". Great news! PS: I know that I'm a bit late. But better later than never. Cheers, Christian On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Hugentobler Marco < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > > Grid lines for the print composer are planned for the next version > (presumably 1.3). > > Regards, > Marco > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [email protected] im Auftrag von Ricardo Filipe > Soares Garcia da > Gesendet: Mo 27.07.2009 22:24 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: [Qgis-user] Grid in print layout > > Hi > I'm also begging for such a tool. Like you, I've been manually > creating these grids for printing purposes only. It gets painful when > I want to display the coordinates in the bottom and right of the grid, > having to create several layers... In fact I've been looking for a > quick way to add them in various open source gis tools and came up > short. So far GRASS is the only that I've seen that allows one to > create a such a grid in an easy way (I've tried Qgis, gvSIG, uDIG, > OpenJUMP, Kosmo and GRASS). On the downside, with GRASS I have to > create a new region and mapset and import my files, which is also time > consuming. > > I am considering learning gmt, mainly to be able to draw these grids > on top of my maps... (though I am sure it will be useful for other > things as well) > > So, to conclude, it would be really cool if Qgis had such a feature! > > > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Martin Bolte<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have to make lots of maps as PDF-files and need to put a grid overlay > > on each map. Creating all these with the plugin "graticule creator" or > > making them via ftools - research tools - vector grid is a tedious task > > as I need to do a lot of steps in order to have the correct coordinates > > of the grid lines displayed in the map layout. > > > > Has anybody a clue on how to speed this up? > > There should be some development on a tool allowing to insert such a > > grid directly within the print composer dialogue. > > > > Kind regards > > > > > > Martin > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Qgis-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > > > > > -- > ___________________________ ___ __ > Ricardo Garcia Silva > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > -- Christian Ferreira Oceanographer IFM-GEOMAR Leibniz-Institute of Marine Sciences Kiel - Germany Poseidon Linux team http://www.poseidonlinux.org
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