regarding the coordinate grid: this is now in the print composer (Version 1.4 and above). No more complicated workarounds or separate plugins ... This new feature is available when a map item is selected and active in the print composer. Activate the grid with the checkbox and make your settings. I am sure that there are special cases not handled in the print composer, like grid in a different coordinate system than your data (eg. data in UTM and grid in degrees (lat/lon)). But most general cases should be possible now.
Andreas On Wed, January 13, 2010 9:29 am, Pierre Chevalier Géologue wrote: > Good morning, > > Brett Adams claviota: >> Hi Pierre, >> I'm a geophysicist in Australia, working primarily in Nickel and IOCG. >> Just started my own consultantsy this year and started with Qgis last >> week. My requirements of Qgis sound very similar to yours. > Certainly. You geophysicists like bright colours, and we geologists > have more dull colours, but after all, we are dealing with the same > thing: rocks, displayed on maps! ;) > So I believe we should have similar requirements! > >> How are you getting a coordinate grid around your maps? > Not easily. Usually, I generate several graticules using the > appropriate plugin, which creates a shapefile for each graticule. I > have to manually change the srid, and then I overlay all my graticules, > using different transparencies, to get a neat visual effect. I also > play with labels, according to map scale and the step of graticule. > >> I'm hoping you have a better (faster) system than me. > I'm afraid not... ;( > >> My process works but is a bit of stuffing about. I generate a vector >> grid, edit the DBF file, reimport the DBF then get the labels organised. > All right: then, you end up with points with a little cross symbol, if I > understand well, with labels around them. > > I believe this is a feature that would be needed by many of us, qgis > users. I had the plan to try to write a plugin to do a neat graticule, > generated every time the map is changed, with coordinates every 1km, or > 100m, or 1000km, depending on the zoom, or 1°, or 30", etc. depending on > the srid (which may be different from the map). But no time... > So many software packages already do this neatly, so I guess it should > not be too difficult to adapt their code. I'm thinking of viking, for > instance. > > A+ > Pierre > > -- > ____________________________________________________________________________ > Pierre Chevalier Géologue EI > Mesté Duran > 32100 Condom > Tél+fax : 09 75 27 45 62 > 05 62 28 06 83 > 06 37 80 33 64 > Émail : pierrechevaliergeolCHEZfree.fr > icq# : 10432285 > skype : pierre.chevalier1967 > http://pierremariechevalier.free.fr/pierre_chevalier_geologue > ____________________________________________________________________________ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > -- Andreas Neumann http://www.carto.net/neumann/ http://www.svgopen.org/ _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
