Hi Marcello,
Thanks for this response!  After my post I also figured out exactly this method for doing it as well, although as you say would be great to have a one-liner.
I will probably just write a little script that performs all these steps and takes in the relevant vector, cat, and raster values.

thanks!
ken

On 06/17/2010 04:17 PM, Marcello Gorini wrote:

Kwas wrote:
  

Hello, 
I have a raster map (dem) and I want to select a region of the raster
corresponding to a polygon that is in a vector map.  What is the best
way to do this?  It looks like r.in.poly might be along the lines of
what I need but in that case I think I would need to generate the ascii
poly file first but I'm wondering if there is a better way?  Seems
like
there should be a single command to do this. 

My vector map has 45 polygons with cat values 1..45,  so I would like
to get a section from my raster map corresponding to one of the
polygons specified by cat value. 

appreciate any help! 
thanks, 
ken 

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Hello Ken,

I am also new to GRASS, but I have been doing what you want quite a lot
these days. There is probably a better way to do that (and I would like to
"hear" it very much, specially if there is a single command to do this), but
for now, I think the code below does the job:

g.region vect=your_vector
v.extract input=your_vector output=selected_polygon type=area
where="cat=desired_cat"
v.to.rast input=selected_polygon output=polygon_rasterized use=val type=area
r.mask input=polygon_rasterized

Now, any processing that you do will be applied only in the region
corresponding to the selected polygon. 
If you want to create a raster corresponding to the selected polygon, just
do:

r.mapcalc "new_raster=any_old_raster"

To take out the mask, just type:
r.mask -r

Hope this helps,

Marcello.







  
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