Sorry; I'll clarify. I meant how to find the number of vector maps, regardless of vector type, that overlay a given region. I'm really only interested in the map names.
~ Eric. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Barton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 9/17/2007 4:25 PM To: Patton, Eric; [email protected] Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] How to find all vectors that overlay a given region It also depends on what you mean by 'how many vectors'. Number of points, lines, segments, areas, centroids, etc. v.info gives some of this information. Michael On 9/17/07 11:29 AM, "Patton, Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to find out how to determine how many vectors in an entire mapset > overlay a given region. What is the best approach to do this - import the > current region as a vector using v.in.region (type parameter as area), then > run v.select on every vector in the mapset in a loop, or is there a better > way? I see that v.overlay/v.select takes one map as input for both the ainput > and binput parameters. > > How hard would it be to change the structures in v.select to accept multiple > inputs, or is this even feasible? > > Thanks, > > ~ Eric. > > __________________________________________ Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology Director of Graduate Studies School of Human Evolution & Social Change Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity Arizona State University phone: 480-965-6213 fax: 480-965-7671 www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton _______________________________________________ grassuser mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grassuser

