d.barscale(1grass)

d.barscale1grass

Displays a barscale on the graphics monitor.

Usage

d.barscale

d.barscale --help

d.barscale [-ftn] [style=string] [at=x,y] [length=integer] [units=string] [label=string] [segment=integer] [color=name] [bgcolor=name] [text_position=string] [width_scale=float] [font=string] [fontsize=float] [path=name] [charset=string] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]

Keywords

display, cartography

Overview

d.barscale displays a barscale on the graphics monitor at the given screen coordinates. If no coordinates are given it will draw the barscale in the bottom left of the display.

The barscale can drawn in a number of styles (see style parameter for their previews).

Note

d.barscale will not work with Lat/Lon coordinate reference system as the horizontal scale distance changes with latitude. Try d.grid instead.

Source code

Available at: d.barscale source code (history)

Accessed: Monday Feb 24 17:50:24 2025

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Releases

10 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 9 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9
  7. 10
  8. 11
  9. 12
  10. 13

Authors

Unknown, from USACE/CERL.
Major rewrite for GRASS 7 by Hamish Bowman

From grass-doc 8.4.1-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.