Hamish wrote on 09/06/2007 12:45 PM: > Kirk Wythers wrote: > >> I am looking to edit a raster map's category information. >> > .. > >> I would like to add category names (Oak, Pine, Spruce, etc...) to >> these numbers.I have been looking around for a way to do it >> (r.reclass?, r.recode?). I'm just not sure what is the "approved" >> approach here. Any suggestions? >> > > > r.support will do it in interactive mode from the command line. That > uses the funny old esc-enter interface, but it works. > > or edit the $MAPSET/cats/$MAPNAME file by hand, it's a simple text file. > Use one of the categorical spearfish maps as an example. > How complicated would it be to develop an optional tcl frontend (like g.mapsets has) for r.support/cats editing? The format isn't that complicated (4 header lines, then ':' separated):
cat nc_spm_06/PERMANENT/cats/landuse96_28m # 24 categories South-West Wake county: NC Land Use 1996 clipped 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0:not classified 1:High Intensity Developed 2:Low Intensity Developed [...] Markus ------------------ ITC -> dall'1 marzo 2007 Fondazione Bruno Kessler ITC -> since 1 March 2007 Fondazione Bruno Kessler ------------------ _______________________________________________ grassuser mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grassuser

