Re: [GRASS-user] GIS Manager, d.vect, and missing labels

2009-01-14 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 14/01/09 02:51, Matt wrote: I've installed the MS-Windows version 6.3.0 on a Vista machine along with the NC datafiles. Page 170 of Neteler and Mitasova gives the example d.vect -c census_wake2000 disp=shape,attr attrcol=FIPSSTCO siz=5 lcol=black. It seems to me there are at least 3 ways to

Re: [GRASS-user] Why v.extract produces columns of type CHARACTER?

2009-01-14 Thread Glynn Clements
Nikos Alexandris wrote: The columns produces by v.extract are of type CHARACTER and v.dissolve does not like this. It's an old issue. Can someone explain why it becomes CHARACTER since grass' type for strings is varchar? Regards, Nikos Sorry, wrong question - false alarm.

Re: [GRASS-user] Why v.extract produces columns of type CHARACTER?

2009-01-14 Thread maning sambale
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Glynn Clements gl...@gclements.plus.com wrote: Nikos Alexandris wrote: The columns produces by v.extract are of type CHARACTER and v.dissolve does not like this. It's an old issue. Can someone explain why it becomes CHARACTER since grass' type for strings

RE: [GRASS-user] r3.in.ascii - Difficulties understanfing format

2009-01-14 Thread Tom van der Putte
Nikos, Thanks very much for the 101 on rasters in Grass, helped me out big time. No worries on the length of the answer, the more the better ;) Tom -Original Message- From: Nikos Alexandris [mailto:nikos.alexand...@felis.uni-freiburg.de] Sent: dinsdag 13 januari 2009 16:50 To:

Re: [GRASS-user] Why v.extract produces columns of type CHARACTER?

2009-01-14 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 14/01/09 10:19, maning sambale wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Glynn Clements gl...@gclements.plus.com wrote: Nikos Alexandris wrote: The columns produces by v.extract are of type CHARACTER and v.dissolve does not like this. It's an old issue. Can someone explain why it becomes

Re: [GRASS-user] Why v.extract produces columns of type CHARACTER?

2009-01-14 Thread maning sambale
IMHO, the best way to deal with attributes in GRASS + SQLite is to do it via the built-in tools in GRASS, and not via the SQLiteBrowser or other tools as this can lead to incompatibilities and confusion. The new wxgui has a very nice interface for attribute and table management. Ahh! Thanks

[GRASS-user] DEM export to GeoTiff

2009-01-14 Thread Stefan Mietke
Hello list,I have a problem with exporting a DEM to *tif.In a first step I import it via r.in.gdal and in a second step I export it with r.out.gdal and the file is not the same anymore. GDAL reduce the file to one pixel but a greater storage size.Even the settings (tags) changes total.Here are

Re: [GRASS-user] DEM export to GeoTiff

2009-01-14 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 14/01/09 16:49, Stefan Mietke wrote: Hello list, I have a problem with exporting a DEM to *tif. There's been quite a lot of discussion on the lists concerning r.out.gdal to GeoTiffs. See for example [1],[2] and the long thread in the relevant track ticket[3]. Several of the issues

Re: [GRASS-user] DEM export to GeoTiff

2009-01-14 Thread Stefan Mietke
Thank you, for your quik response.The problem is, that the data is unusable after importing/exporting them ...There is only 1 pixel left of the original DEM and all elevation data are missing! __ Ask a question on any topic

Re: [GRASS-user] GIS Manager, d.vect, and missing labels

2009-01-14 Thread Kenneth Brookes
I've installed the MS-Windows version 6.3.0 on a Vista machine along with the NC datafiles. Page 170 of Neteler and Mitasova gives the example d.vect -c census_wake2000 disp=shape,attr attrcol=FIPSSTCO siz=5 lcol=black. It seems to me there are at least 3 ways to do this, and I can only get

Re: [GRASS-user] GIS Manager, d.vect, and missing labels

2009-01-14 Thread Matt
Thanks - centroids did the trick. I don't know what else I did to make me think approach 3 worked. You of course are correct, it doesn't work. How do you know which commands will work from the lower window of GIS.m, and which commands will not work from that window? On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at

Re: [GRASS-user] A list= option for v.overlay?

2009-01-14 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 10:16 +1100, Richard Chirgwin wrote: [...] Unfortunately, even the following Segfaults. # step 1: split in separate vector maps all samples, e.g. boxes of 40.000m x 40.000m for x in `v.category box_4 option=print | sort -nu | grep -v /`; do v.extract

Re: [GRASS-user] Buffer overflow v.in.ogr on GRASS 6.4 RC2

2009-01-14 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 23:24 +0100, wout bijkerk wrote: I just checked something that came to my mind pondering the problem NIkos encountered (see thread Problem importing/viewing a ~160MB shapefile): When I import a polygonshape without making an attribute table (-t option), then the

Re: [GRASS-user] Display thematic vector map - WinGRASS 6.3 (Vista)

2009-01-14 Thread Matt
Ken, You are not alone. I tried the thematic vector example on page 171 of Neteler Mitasova and also encountered the You must open a display monitor message. I'm running 6.3.0-4 on Vista. Matt On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Moritz Lennert mlenn...@club.worldonline.be wrote: On 06/01/09

Re: [GRASS-user] GIS Manager, d.vect, and missing labels

2009-01-14 Thread Glynn Clements
Matt wrote: 3) Typing the example into the bottom window of GIS.m and press ing the run button, the color map appears in the Map Display 1 window, but there are no labels, I find it surprising that you can actually display the map that way. I don't think that should be possible. I

Re: [GRASS-user] Display thematic vector map - WinGRASS 6.3 (Vista)

2009-01-14 Thread Michael Barton
I'm pretty sure that this is a Vista issue, though one that has been solved in 6.4. Michael On Jan 14, 2009, at 7:33 PM, Matt wrote: Ken, You are not alone. I tried the thematic vector example on page 171 of Neteler Mitasova and also encountered the You must open a display monitor