NAME
v.label.sa - Create optimally placed labels for vector map(s)
KEYWORDS
vector,
paint labels
SYNOPSIS
v.label.sa
v.label.sa --help
v.label.sa map=name [type=string[,string,...]] [layer=string] column=string labels=name font=string [size=float] [isize=float] [charset=string] [color=string] [hcolor=string] [hwidth=float] [background=string] [opaque=yes|no] [border=string] [width=float] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]
Flags:
- --help
- Print usage summary
- --verbose
- Verbose module output
- --quiet
- Quiet module output
- --ui
- Force launching GUI dialog
Parameters:
- map=name [required]
- Name of vector map
- Or data source for direct OGR access
- type=string[,string,...]
- Input feature type
- Options: point, line, area
- Default: point,line,area
- layer=string
- Layer number or name
- Vector features can have category values in different layers. This number determines which layer to use. When used with direct OGR access this is the layer name.
- Default: 1
- column=string [required]
- Name of attribute column to be used for labels
- labels=name [required]
- Name for new paint-label file
- font=string [required]
- Name of TrueType font (as listed in the fontcap)
- size=float
- Label size (in map-units)
- Default: 100
- isize=float
- Icon size of point features (in map-units)
- Default: 10
- charset=string
- Character encoding (default: UTF-8)
- Default: UTF-8
- color=string
- Text color
- Options: aqua, black, blue, brown, cyan, gray, green, grey, indigo, magenta, orange, purple, red, violet, white, yellow
- Default: black
- hcolor=string
- Highlight color for text
- Options: none, aqua, black, blue, brown, cyan, gray, green, grey, indigo, magenta, orange, purple, red, violet, white, yellow
- Default: none
- hwidth=float
- Width of highlight coloring
- Default: 0
- background=string
- Background color
- Options: none, aqua, black, blue, brown, cyan, gray, green, grey, indigo, magenta, orange, purple, red, violet, white, yellow
- Default: none
- opaque=yes|no
- Opaque to vector (only relevant if background color is selected)
- Options: yes, no
- Default: yes
- border=string
- Border color
- Options: none, aqua, black, blue, brown, cyan, gray, green, grey, indigo, magenta, orange, purple, red, violet, white, yellow
- Default: none
- width=float
- Border width (only for ps.map output)
- Default: 0
v.label.sa makes a label-file from a GRASS vector map
with labels created from attributes in the attached table. The labels are
placed in as optimal place as possible. The label file has the same syntax
as the one created by
v.label
North Carolina example:
# get font names:
d.font -L
v.label.sa roadsmajor labels=roads_labels column=ROAD_NAME color=red \
background=white size=250 font=Vera
# set region:
g.region raster=lsat7_2002_10 -p
# display:
d.rgb b=lsat7_2002_10 g=lsat7_2002_20 r=lsat7_2002_30
d.vect roadsmajor col=yellow
d.labels roads_labels
Road labeling with v.label.sa (Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, area)
Edmondson, Christensen, Marks and Shieber: A General Cartographic
Labeling Algorithm, Cartographica, Vol. 33, No. 4, Winter 1996, pp. 13-23
The algorithm works by the principle of Simulated Annealing.
d.label
d.labels
ps.map
Wikipedia article on simulated annealing
Wolf Bergenheim
SOURCE CODE
Available at:
v.label.sa source code
(history)
Latest change: Friday Oct 25 16:16:09 2024 in commit: 4ea983fff87951516b6e4578a0527e3b10f04643
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