Hi Emile, just for making maps you for sure do not need GRASS, GRASS is the "Geographic Raster Analysis Support System" - a GIS tool for "real" working with GIS data, but definetely not for creating nice maps... ;-)
Therefore I think the print-composer of QGIS is very helpful, there was also a talk at FOSS4G recently, dealing with making maps with QGIS and Inkscape: http://2011.foss4g.org/sessions/quantum-gis-inkscape-cartographic-tools-attractive-maps I think very soon you might get the presentations lsides and also a video of the presentation itself. Regards, Till On 30.09.2011 14:18, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: > On 2011-09-30 08:12, Emile Peek wrote: >> I am a newbie and I am regularly making maps on Wikimedia Commons with >> Inkscape. I am trying to make sense of Qgis and the many possibilities it >> offers but to no avail. > > Hi Emile, > > I'm not into GRASS, but for your info: > > I've been working with Hugo Lopes (in cc) to make wikimedia maps with > qgis and svg: see for example > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Graphic_Lab/Resources/QGis_lesson_3:_Raster_to_vector_and_Change_projection#Export_GIS_Vectors_.26_Raster_layers_to_SVG_.28100.25.29 > > We have tried to make a plugin to make it possible to export (simple) > maps as svg in a way that editing in inkscape is easier (keep features > of a class in one group, keep features in a layer, naming a group the > name of a layer, naming a point the label name etc etc). > > Maybe this can be usefull also. > > Regards, > > Richard Duivenvoorde > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > -- --> GO Mobile - jetzt WebGIS auch auf Smartphones <-- ! Achtung - terrestris hat eine neue Adresse ! --------------------------------------------------------- terrestris GmbH & Co. KG Puetzchens Chaussee 56 53227 Bonn Germany Till Adams Geschaeftsfuehrung Tel: +49 (0)228 / 962 899-52 Mobile: +49 (0)151 / 25394429 Fax: +49 (0)228 / 962 899-57 [email protected] http://www.terrestris.de Amtsgericht Bonn, HRA 6835 --------------------------------------------------------- Komplementaerin: terrestris Verwaltungs GmbH vertreten durch: Hinrich Paulsen, Till Adams _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
