On 6/15/07, Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dylan Beaudette wrote: > > > There has been a thread about how v.transform functions and Glynn pointed > > > out that part of the problem is that the short description does not > > > really describe what it does, at least from a GIS perspective: > > > > > > " Transforms a vector map layer from one coordinate system into another > > > coordinate system." > > > > > > I'm working on wxgrass menus at the moment and trying to come up with > > > useful menu entries. A better short description for v.transform might be: > > > > > > "Reposition (shift and rotate) vector file in coordinate space" > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > It can also scale. > > ... and to be complete, it can also shear. Only when using the pointsfile= option; there isn't any direct way to specify a transformation which includes shear.
Yes, good (point) . It would be an interesting add-on, to manually specify the components of the affine transformation matrix. perhaps in addition to the existing manual adjustments. Maybe I will have a try at this. cheers, dylan _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
