Mark wrote:
> Is the best way to clip data to use the v.overlay command with the "and"
> operator?
>
> it works great, but seems quite slow on larger datasets. Additionally as an
> example, if i have topographic contour lines, and i want to clip them to a
> polygon, and only want the topo line attributes (elevation) outputted, is
> there a way to do this? Is there another way to clip line data to within a
> polygon that might be a bit faster?
run v.select, then v.overlay. That way the intensive v.overlay operation only
happens for relevant vector features. Then it will speed up hugely.
I wonder if v.select functionality could be built into v.overlay as a
preprocessing step?
Hamish
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