Hello all: I believe my earlier questions have not been very well phrased. Here is my situation: I have an ongoing need to make a variety of maps of more or less the same kind. I have a small area, divided into 39 towns and about 75 zip code areas, for which I already have a dandy set of ESRI-style shapefiles. I have some data by town, and some data by the zips. No doubt I'll someday get data in some other package, too, like legislative districts or counties.
The maps I want to make are pretty simple: color this town red if value X is over 12, and green if it's under. Color the town yellow if Y is also greater than 6. When I get data in the zip code areas, I'll need to re-jigger it into the towns somehow, so it can be compared with the other town data. This is a long-term thing, and I don't mind putting in the time to learn a new package. I'm not looking for quick-and-dirty solutions. But I am apparently very confused about what software is for which part of my tasks. I thought these were GIS tasks, and that QGIS was a GIS system, so it could do that, QED. (And the manuals I've read have been ambiguos enough that I couldn't resolve these questions there.) My questions: This is apparently not a QGIS thing. Is it a QGIS/GRASS set of tasks? Is there a way to run GRASS without QGIS, or am I supposed to think of GRASS as an extension to QGIS? Is some part of this best done with PostGIS? If so, which part, and do I use QGIS as the PostGIS client, or is there a better PostGIS client I should learn? Can I get print-quality (postscript is best) output from any of these systems, or does this requirement create restrictions I should know about now before I invest the time? Many thanks for your patience and assistance. -tom -- ------------------------ tomfool at as220 dot org http://sgouros.com http://whatcheer.net _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.qgis.org http://lists.qgis.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
