On Feb 16, 2009, at 8:37 PM, Nikos Alexandris wrote:

On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 20:01 -0500, Kurt Springs wrote:
Hi folks,
I do have another problem I would like some thoughts on.

I have vector areas representing water areas (lakes and oceans).  I
purchased these areas from the Irish and Northern Irish Ordinance
Survey.  They came as .dxf packages.  I extracted them but they would
not fill.  I opened them in v.digit and found that the vector lines
were broken, even missing in places.  I did my best to close the
vectors.  The ocean was just a coastline.  I had to modify it by
attaching a the bounding box and taking away everything that didn't
look like the ocean.  Getting these areas to fill even though I think
I managed to join most of the nodes.  Some I think I really did join,
some I know would not join.

Is there a simple(ish) way to generate areas that will be I can turn
blue and say "here are the lakes and oceans"?  I don't need them for
analysis, but I would like to put maps generated into my dissertation
and have them be pleasing to the eye.

Any help on this will be appreciated.
Kurt

FWIW,

once I received a .dxf file that contained burned areas digitised by
GPS-supported devices. After getting the file in GRASS, it looked really
bad. As you describe, open "boundaries", missing parts of lines.

I had to "restore" it manually. I don't think there is another option
than hard-hand-working here. Except if you are lucky and you could use
v.clean to close boundaries, add centroids with v.centroid and play
around with colors. But I doubt it.

Kind regards, Nikos


I am almost sure that I can trace the areas in qgis I made a test with its drawing tools. Is there a way to import that tracing back to GRASS?

Kurt
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