I have made some handy tools for grass. They all have to do something with displaying maps: d.area: Display a vectormap as filled polygons in one color d.area.lu: Display a vectormap as filled polygons in rastercolors, Tip: Rasterize the vectormap, edit the colortable (using d.colors, r.colors e.g.), copy the colortable in $LOCATION/colr to another filename in the same direcory, delete the rastermap, run the program d.myzoom: Same as d.zoom but without annoying dialog boxes d.pan: Shift entire region by pointing at a new region center. d.myscale: Display a barscale with dragoption with the mouse. (the scale itself has black and white boxes) d.site.labels: Display sitelabels. either display of all sitelabels or by pointing at individual sites (with drag option) d.v.zoom: Zoom in to the bounding box of a mouse-selectable polygon in a vectormap. I have put a file on moon in the incoming directory, called ARCHIS.prgs.tar.Z, instalation is very simple, get the file from moon, type: cd $GISBASE/src.alpha/display zcat ARCHIS.prgs.tar.Z | tar xvf - For each program: cd progname/cmd gmake4.1 don't forget to run MAKELINKS.head The programs do not have a manpage yet, since I only use them in scripts. Hope you enjoy them. I also modified d.vect, with an option to specify both color and linewidth and made a program called d.vect.lu, with the possibility to display LINE vectormaps in category dependant colors and linewidth. These latter programs require modification of the raster library and the XDRIVER (or other drivers). I will make these programs available as soon as linewidth is a standard option in the raster library. Ronald Wiemer ARCHIS, Amersfoort The Netherlands