NAME
d.rast.arrow - Draws arrows representing cell aspect direction for a raster map layer.
SYNOPSIS
d.rast.arrow
d.rast.arrow help
d.rast.arrow [map=string] [type=string] [arrow_color=string] [grid_color=string] [x_color=string] [unknown_color=string]
Parameters:
- map=string
- Name of existing raster map to be displayed
- type=string
- Type of existing raster map to be displayed
- Options: grass,agnps,answers
- Default: grass
- arrow_color=string
- Color for drawing arrows
- Options: red,orange,yellow,green,blue,indigo,violet,white,black,gray,brown,magenta,aqua,grey
- Default: green
- grid_color=string
- Color for outlining grids
- Options: red,orange,yellow,green,blue,indigo,violet,white,black,gray,brown,magenta,aqua,grey
- Default: gray
- x_color=string
- Color for drawing x's
- Options: red,orange,yellow,green,blue,indigo,violet,white,black,gray,brown,magenta,aqua,grey
- Default: white
- unknown_color=string
- Color for showing unknown information
- Options: red,orange,yellow,green,blue,indigo,violet,white,black,gray,brown,magenta,aqua,grey
- Default: red
DESCRIPTION
d.rast.arrow
is designed to help users better visualize surface water flow direction,
as indicated in an aspect raster map layer. There are two ways to specify
the aspect layer the program is to use. The first is to display the aspect
map layer on the graphics monitor before running d.rast.arrow.
The second method involves setting the map parameter
to the name of the desired aspect map.
This allows the arrows to be drawn over any other maps already displayed
on the graphics monitor.
d.rast.arrow will draw an arrow over each displayed cell
to indicate in which direction the cell slopes.
An arrow can point in one of eight directions. If the aspect
layer has a category value denoting locations of "unknown" aspect,
d.rast.arrow draws a question mark over the displayed cells
of that category.
Cells of category 0 (no data) will be marked with an "X".
Note: Arrows are cell size and cannot be seen if the raster map is
relatively close in scale. From a command line mode, the user cannot run
d.rast.arrow and then run d.zoom
and still see the arrows. The zooming action erases the arrows and the user
must run d.rast.arrow again.
SEE ALSO
d.frame
d.rast
d.rast.edit
d.rast.num
d.zoom
g.region
r.mask
r.slope.aspect
parser
AUTHOR
Chris Rewerts,
Agricultural Engineering,
Purdue University
Last changed: $Date: 2003/04/11 15:09:51 $
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