Re: [GRASS-user] error using v.in.gns

2008-07-02 Thread maning sambale
Updating on the svn, I get this configure error
checking for gdal-config... /usr/bin/gdal-config
configure: error: *** Unable to locate GDAL library

Running ldconfig seems that my gdal libarary's are in the right place:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/source/develbranch_6$ sudo /sbin/ldconfig -p | grep gdal
libgdal1.5.0.so.1 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libgdal1.5.0.so.1
libgdal1.5.0.so (libc6) => /usr/lib/libgdal1.5.0.so
libgdal1.4.0.so.1 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libgdal1.4.0.so.1

cheers,
maning
On 7/2/08, Markus Neteler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:26 AM, maning sambale
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I get thios message with v.in.gns:
>> Converted 74072 place names.
>>
>> Scanning input for column types...
>>
>> Unparsable latitude value: LAT
>>
>> Unable to open vector map <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on topology level 2
>> AFAIK is used the original data from downloaded from GNS Repo, sample
>> data:
>
> Yesterday/today, in GRASS SVN (both 6.4.svn and 7.svn) some v.in.ascii
> buffer overflow was fixed (for v.in.geonames which reads in potentially
> better
> quality data than v.in.gns).
>
> If you can, please update from SVN and try again. Hopefully fixed now.
>
> Markus
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Re: [GRASS-user] Output question - ps.map

2008-07-02 Thread Hamish
Richard Chirgwin:
> 2) Set the paper size to 200" x 200"

AFAIU now, the issue is that the PDF output is compressed, not the PostScript 
output of ps.map, which should be a best resolution. The
above trick is to get a create a resolution PDF, at the expense of
incorrect paper size. ie fool acrobat reader.


I have struggled with the same issue -- PDF conversion with the 
ps2pdf13 gs wrapper reduces the images to 72dpi.


for the PS -> PDF conversion try:

gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer \
  -sOutputFile=out.pdf in.ps


I tried with "-r1200" and "-r600x600" and "-density600" gs options but
those had no discernible effect AFAICT*, although the file sizes changed
a small amount (got smaller!). Probably due to the fact that I don't
know ghostscript very well.


"-dPDFSETTINGS=/printer" seemed to do the trick though.


[*] ah ha!, -r1200 works, but only when you define -dPDFSETTINGS as well.
now my 24M ps.map .ps file (1.6M gzipped) is a 1.1M PDF instead of a
600K one, and looks nicer too.  (debian/etch gs version 8.15.3)


http://milan.kupcevic.net/ghostscript_ps_pdf

--snip--
PDF optimization level selection options

-dPDFSETTINGS=/screen   (screen-view-only quality — 72 dpi images)
-dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook(low quality — 150 dpi images)
-dPDFSETTINGS=/printer  (high quality — 300 dpi images)
-dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress (high quality with color preserving — 300 dpi images)
-dPDFSETTINGS=/default  (almost identical to /screen)
--/snip--


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Re: [GRASS-user] Output question - ps.map

2008-07-02 Thread Moritz Lennert

On 02/07/08 10:11, Hamish wrote:

Richard Chirgwin:

2) Set the paper size to 200" x 200"


AFAIU now, the issue is that the PDF output is compressed, not the PostScript 
output of ps.map, which should be a best resolution. The
above trick is to get a create a resolution PDF, at the expense of
incorrect paper size. ie fool acrobat reader.


I have struggled with the same issue -- PDF conversion with the 
ps2pdf13 gs wrapper reduces the images to 72dpi.



for the PS -> PDF conversion try:

gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer \
  -sOutputFile=out.pdf in.ps


I tried with "-r1200" and "-r600x600" and "-density600" gs options but
those had no discernible effect AFAICT*, although the file sizes changed
a small amount (got smaller!). Probably due to the fact that I don't
know ghostscript very well.


"-dPDFSETTINGS=/printer" seemed to do the trick though.


Normally, you should actually be able to give this option directly to 
ps2pdf:


http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/6.50/Ps2pdf.htm


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Re: [GRASS-user] Output question - ps.map

2008-07-02 Thread Markus Neteler
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Hamish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> for the PS -> PDF conversion try:
>
> gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer \
>  -sOutputFile=out.pdf in.ps

maybe there's something interesting also in here:

http://www.grassbook.org/neteler/highres_pdf.html
Creating High Resolution PDF files for book production with Open Source tools


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[GRASS-user] Gdal-config with 6.4svn

2008-07-02 Thread doktoreas

Hello everybody.

Building today svn checkout, I have this error with gdal-config:
checking whether to use GDAL... yes
checking for gdal-config... /usr/bin/gdal-config
configure: error: *** Unable to locate GDAL library.

3 days ago, it built with no problem.

The system is an Ubuntu Hardy with Jachym's repository

Gdal installed:
libgdal1-1.4.0 
libgdal1-1.4.0-grass  
libgdal1-1.5.0 
libgdal1-dev 

wich gdal-config:
/usr/bin/gdal-config

gdal related files in /usr/lib/
libgdal1.4.0.so.1   libgdal1.4.0.so.1.11.4  libgdal1.5.0.a 
libgdal1.5.0.la libgdal1.5.0.so libgdal1.5.0.so.1  
libgdal1.5.0.so.1.12.1

gdal-config --version:
1.5.1

Thanks for your help
Luca


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Re: [GRASS-user] Gdal-config with 6.4svn

2008-07-02 Thread maning sambale
Hi,

I'm also experiencing the same problem from todays's svn checkout

I'm using ubuntu hardy. I have the same configuration with dokotoreas

cheers,
maning
On 7/2/08, doktoreas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello everybody.
>
> Building today svn checkout, I have this error with gdal-config:
> checking whether to use GDAL... yes
> checking for gdal-config... /usr/bin/gdal-config
> configure: error: *** Unable to locate GDAL library.
>
> 3 days ago, it built with no problem.
>
> The system is an Ubuntu Hardy with Jachym's repository
>
> Gdal installed:
> libgdal1-1.4.0
> libgdal1-1.4.0-grass
> libgdal1-1.5.0
> libgdal1-dev
>
> wich gdal-config:
> /usr/bin/gdal-config
>
> gdal related files in /usr/lib/
> libgdal1.4.0.so.1   libgdal1.4.0.so.1.11.4  libgdal1.5.0.a
> libgdal1.5.0.la libgdal1.5.0.so libgdal1.5.0.so.1
> libgdal1.5.0.so.1.12.1
>
> gdal-config --version:
> 1.5.1
>
> Thanks for your help
> Luca
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Re: [GRASS-user] Gdal-config with 6.4svn

2008-07-02 Thread Markus Neteler
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 12:13 PM, doktoreas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello everybody.
>
> Building today svn checkout, I have this error with gdal-config:
> checking whether to use GDAL... yes
> checking for gdal-config... /usr/bin/gdal-config
> configure: error: *** Unable to locate GDAL library.
>
> 3 days ago, it built with no problem.

apparently you updated in those 3 days, see below:

> The system is an Ubuntu Hardy with Jachym's repository
>
> Gdal installed:
> libgdal1-1.4.0
> libgdal1-1.4.0-grass
> libgdal1-1.5.0
> libgdal1-dev

personally, I would not mix those versions. One version should
be enough.

> gdal related files in /usr/lib/
> libgdal1.4.0.so.1   libgdal1.4.0.so.1.11.4  libgdal1.5.0.a
> libgdal1.5.0.la libgdal1.5.0.so libgdal1.5.0.so.1
> libgdal1.5.0.so.1.12.1
>
> gdal-config --version:
> 1.5.1

As you can see, gdal-config points to a nonexisting library version.

It's a packager error, not a GRASS error.

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Re: [GRASS-user] Gdal-config with 6.4svn

2008-07-02 Thread doktoreas



Markus Neteler OSGeo wrote:
> 
> 
>> The system is an Ubuntu Hardy with Jachym's repository
>>
>> Gdal installed:
>> libgdal1-1.4.0
>> libgdal1-1.4.0-grass
>> libgdal1-1.5.0
>> libgdal1-dev
> 
> personally, I would not mix those versions. One version should
> be enough.
> 
> 

Yes, you are right. The 1.4.0 comes with qgis-grass-plugin from Tim 
Ubuntu repository. Hopes to see just one repository for Ubuntu (Osgeo?)  :)

Thanks for all your suggestion.

Bye
Luca
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Re: [GRASS-user] error using v.in.gns

2008-07-02 Thread Glynn Clements

maning sambale wrote:

> Updating on the svn, I get this configure error
> checking for gdal-config... /usr/bin/gdal-config
> configure: error: *** Unable to locate GDAL library

Look in the config.log file for relevant error messages.

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[GRASS-user] Poseidon Linux 3.0

2008-07-02 Thread Christian Ferreira
Hi Folks,


Poseidon Linux is here!

For GIS people it comes with:

GIS/Mapping:

SPRING 4.3.3
GRASS 6.2.1 + plugins GDAL 1.4.4 and OGR 1.4.4
GMT 4.2.0
PROJ 4.6
QGIS 0.10 + plugins (including GRASS Plugin)
Terraview 3.2 Plus
MB System 5.1.0
GPS Manager
GPS Drive
Mapserver 5.0 + Pmapper 3.2 (pmapper don't work running from live-DVD,
just work when installed on a PC)

For more details please visit our site:

http://sites.google.com/site/poseidonlinux/Home

Yes, I know... there is GRASS 6.3 out... but to minimize download time
for users we plan to release each 3-4 months a maintenance version
with updates (normal/security) and a few upgrades... and GRASS is
already our list.

Best regards,
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[GRASS-user] ps.map dilemma

2008-07-02 Thread Christian Ferreira
Hi all,


I come here with a question/dilemma...

Why ps.map lacks so much user support?

A lot of people know about GRASS all over the world, but nearly nobody
use it, since nearly any software in the world is less difficult to
produce maps.

GRASS is a wonderful tool for analysis, but it fails to produce the
ultimate result: a map.

Even GMT is widely used, because a lot of people SHARE the scripts,
and there is the "GMT cookbook" on the official website.

But for GRASS everybody can see some good examples here:

http://grass.itc.it/screenshots/cartography.php

But nearly nobody share the scripts to make these wonderful maps...
and you know, a lot of people will never "lose" their time trying to
figure out how ps.map works just using the man page.

Ps.map also needs a "cookbook" in the future.

And at: http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Ps.map_scripts

Ok, we have finally a few scripts, but poorly documented.

I use GRASS since 2001, it is nearly a complete solution for GIS (in
my opinion), but ps.map was always the weak point (in my opinion
too)... normally I need to export all my region/data to
GMT/ArcView/Surfer to make the final map.

For example, my latest work was two pages for an atlas for National
Geographic Brasil/Brazil, with a work that I started developing with
GRASS since 2001... but guess if GRASS was used for the final map?

This is a shame for me. :-(

I am aware of g-ps.map (the alternate GUI for ps.map), but will take
sometime until it became truth.

So... If there someone who wants to share his knowlegde, I can at
least help to compile and document the material to prepare a real
"ps.map cookbook" on the GRASS-Wiki.

Who will join me, and share some material?

Best regards,
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RE: [GRASS-user] ps.map dilemma

2008-07-02 Thread Pablo Carreira

Good questioning. 
My solution is that I use Qgis with PDF output to produce the ilustration part 
of the map and them make the final product with all the legend and titles with 
Scribus.
 
Pablo Torres CarreiraINCRA/Araraquara - Brazil.
> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 20:17:18 +0200> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 
> grass-user@lists.osgeo.org> Subject: [GRASS-user] ps.map dilemma> > Hi all,> 
> > > I come here with a question/dilemma...> > Why ps.map lacks so much user 
> support?> > A lot of people know about GRASS all over the world, but nearly 
> nobody> use it, since nearly any software in the world is less difficult to> 
> produce maps.> > GRASS is a wonderful tool for analysis, but it fails to 
> produce the> ultimate result: a map.> > Even GMT is widely used, because a 
> lot of people SHARE the scripts,> and there is the "GMT cookbook" on the 
> official website.> > But for GRASS everybody can see some good examples 
> here:> > http://grass.itc.it/screenshots/cartography.php> > But nearly nobody 
> share the scripts to make these wonderful maps...> and you know, a lot of 
> people will never "lose" their time trying to> figure out how ps.map works 
> just using the man page.> > Ps.map also needs a "cookbook" in the future.> > 
> And at: http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Ps.map_scripts> > Ok, we have finally a 
> few scripts, but poorly documented.> > I use GRASS since 2001, it is nearly a 
> complete solution for GIS (in> my opinion), but ps.map was always the weak 
> point (in my opinion> too)... normally I need to export all my region/data 
> to> GMT/ArcView/Surfer to make the final map.> > For example, my latest work 
> was two pages for an atlas for National> Geographic Brasil/Brazil, with a 
> work that I started developing with> GRASS since 2001... but guess if GRASS 
> was used for the final map?> > This is a shame for me. :-(> > I am aware of 
> g-ps.map (the alternate GUI for ps.map), but will take> sometime until it 
> became truth.> > So... If there someone who wants to share his knowlegde, I 
> can at> least help to compile and document the material to prepare a real> 
> "ps.map cookbook" on the GRASS-Wiki.> > Who will join me, and share some 
> material?> > Best regards,> Christian> > --> Christian dos Santos Ferreira> 
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Re: [GRASS-user] ps.map dilemma

2008-07-02 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Wednesday 02 July 2008, Christian Ferreira wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> I come here with a question/dilemma...
>
> Why ps.map lacks so much user support?

Good question.

> A lot of people know about GRASS all over the world, but nearly nobody
> use it, since nearly any software in the world is less difficult to
> produce maps.
>
> GRASS is a wonderful tool for analysis, but it fails to produce the
> ultimate result: a map.

Partially by design, GRASS is primarily geared toward data processing and 
analysis.

> Even GMT is widely used, because a lot of people SHARE the scripts,
> and there is the "GMT cookbook" on the official website.

Glad you mention GMT. It could potentially become what ps.map isn't quite once 
the python bindings for both GMT and GRASS are a little more mature.

> But for GRASS everybody can see some good examples here:
>
> http://grass.itc.it/screenshots/cartography.php
>
> But nearly nobody share the scripts to make these wonderful maps...
> and you know, a lot of people will never "lose" their time trying to
> figure out how ps.map works just using the man page.
>
> Ps.map also needs a "cookbook" in the future.
>
> And at: http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Ps.map_scripts
>
> Ok, we have finally a few scripts, but poorly documented.

A ps.map cookbook would be nice- would you like to start it? I imagine that 
you will get a couple good ones after posting this. Once you have them, along 
with a screen shot, you could post the annotated examples on the wiki.

> I use GRASS since 2001, it is nearly a complete solution for GIS (in
> my opinion), but ps.map was always the weak point (in my opinion
> too)... normally I need to export all my region/data to
> GMT/ArcView/Surfer to make the final map.
>
> For example, my latest work was two pages for an atlas for National
> Geographic Brasil/Brazil, with a work that I started developing with
> GRASS since 2001... but guess if GRASS was used for the final map?
>
> This is a shame for me. :-(

It is a shame. GMT is usually my map-making favorite. Alternatively GRASS + 
GMT + Inkscape / Illustrator.

> I am aware of g-ps.map (the alternate GUI for ps.map), but will take
> sometime until it became truth.
>
> So... If there someone who wants to share his knowlegde, I can at
> least help to compile and document the material to prepare a real
> "ps.map cookbook" on the GRASS-Wiki.
>
> Who will join me, and share some material?
>
> Best regards,
> Christian

Good luck,

Dylan


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Re: [GRASS-user] ps.map dilemma

2008-07-02 Thread Martin Landa
Hi,

2008/7/2 Dylan Beaudette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Why ps.map lacks so much user support?
>
> Good question.

I am planning to design the GUI for ps.map as a part of wxGUI [1],
should be done in the next few mouths.

Martin

[1] http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/WxPython-based_GUI_for_GRASS#GUI_for_ps.map

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Re: [GRASS-user] ps.map dilemma

2008-07-02 Thread Glynn Clements

Martin Landa wrote:

> >> Why ps.map lacks so much user support?
> >
> > Good question.
> 
> I am planning to design the GUI for ps.map as a part of wxGUI [1],
> should be done in the next few mouths.

FWIW, I'm planning to remove ps.map from 7.x.

Equivalent functionality will be available through d.* commands.

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Re: [GRASS-user] ps.map dilemma

2008-07-02 Thread Martin Landa
Hi,

2008/7/2 Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Martin Landa wrote:
>
>> >> Why ps.map lacks so much user support?
>> >
>> > Good question.
>>
>> I am planning to design the GUI for ps.map as a part of wxGUI [1],
>> should be done in the next few mouths.
>
> FWIW, I'm planning to remove ps.map from 7.x.
>
> Equivalent functionality will be available through d.* commands.

I know, GUI for ps.map is just temporary solution (at least for
grass6), some notes here

http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/WxPython-based_GUI_for_GRASS#Direct_printing

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Re: [GRASS-user] ps.map dilemma

2008-07-02 Thread Hamish
[moving this to the grass-dev list..]

Glynn:
> FWIW, I'm planning to remove ps.map from 7.x.
>
> Equivalent functionality will be available through d.*
> commands.

any reason other than redunancy?

It is highly useful to some and currently outpaces d.* for quality. 
Duplicate functionality is only a reason if:

a) it does a worse job for the task (debatable->personal choice), or
b) it distracts the developer pool too much from working on new things.
c) adds too much bulk

none of which are the case, IMO. it does a good job and the code hardly changes 
(I think I'm the only one who actually works on it). It doesn't touch anything 
outside its directory and the code is a fairly small portion of the overall 
tarball.

i.e., what is the cost of leaving it there for those who depend on it?

AFAICS the primary thing it lacks is a nice GUI frontend composer.


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Re: [GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS-user] ps.map dilemma

2008-07-02 Thread Glynn Clements

Hamish wrote:

> > FWIW, I'm planning to remove ps.map from 7.x.
> >
> > Equivalent functionality will be available through d.*
> > commands.
> 
> any reason other than redunancy?

Partly redundancy, mainly to ensure that people complain about any
deficiencies with the alternative.

> It is highly useful to some and currently outpaces d.* for quality. 

Just about anything currently outpaces d.* for quality. That will
change once the graphics architecture is re-written.

> Duplicate functionality is only a reason if:
> 
> a) it does a worse job for the task (debatable->personal choice), or
> b) it distracts the developer pool too much from working on new things.
> c) adds too much bulk

The main reasons are b) and:

d) it distracts the user pool from testing new things.

Essentially, if ps.map is left, it will "steal" both developers and
testers from d.*, which (AFAIK) is still the primary mechanism for
graphics.

[Unless you're planning on entirely replacing d.* with ps.map, in
which case ps.map is going to have to become a great deal simpler
(code-wise) and more flexible.]

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Re: [GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS-user] ps.map dilemma

2008-07-02 Thread Hamish
Glynn:
> > > FWIW, I'm planning to remove ps.map from 7.x.
> > >
> > > Equivalent functionality will be available through d.*
> > > commands.
Hamish:
> > any reason other than redunancy?
Glynn:
> Partly redundancy, mainly to ensure that people complain
> about any deficiencies with the alternative.

ok. As d.* is the main track and ps.map is mostly a periphery I wouldn't
get too worried about that. But I really have no idea how many people
use ps.map versus d.out.file/Cairo, or the PNG driver, or QGIS, or ..
You are correct in that I expect the hard core ps.map users will probably
be among the better/noisier testers for the next generation d.* PS driver.

FWIW once grass7 goes mainstream if I still need ps.map for work, I'll
port it (can't afford downtime, etc). The question then becomes whether
to include it [back] in the main distro or keep it as an addon. I don't
see much point in debating that too much until both grass7 and the port
actually exist.


wrt ps.map usability: In my experience, once you have spent the time to
learn how to use it, ps.map rocks for publication quality stuff- where you
don't mind throwing in a bit more time. Maybe "oh, just edit the PostScript 
file by hand to fix that" is a bit over the top, but part of my point in
doing that is to show that it really isn't that scary, it's just a text
file with commands in it and the user is in charge. I will try and add a
few more tips&hints onto the wiki page.

wrt GMT: perhaps the output is more refined, but the learning curve and
command line comfort is about the same and the integration not as good
so far. I look forward to seeing improved *.out.gmt scripts and hope the
ones we have now can be consolidated. Maybe a nice (albeit perhaps
off-topic enough to not make the cut) Google Summer of Code project for
next year would be to improve GRASS<->GMT flow.


enjoys choices and working on clunky old sports cars,
Hamish




  
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Re: [GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS-user] ps.map dilemma

2008-07-02 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Hamish ha scritto:

> enjoys choices and working on clunky old sports cars,

talking about choices and duplication, please note that work is also
well underway for a new printing mechanism for qgis
https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/browser/branches/advanced_printing_branch
due probably in a month or two, I guess.
all the best.
pc
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Paolo Cavallini, see: * http://www.faunalia.it/pc *
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