[GRASS-user] Re: grass-user Digest, Vol 70, Issue 7

2012-02-04 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi Aldo, Martin In last week I to did some work with adding scale/north to a map. using 6.4.svn (a couple of days behind update at time of post). With python wx GUI Found similar to Aldo, where adding scalebar seemed to be a 'once-off' option, couldn't click on it etc to edit. using icon on

Re: [GRASS-user] how to report/measure a vector area?

2012-01-30 Thread Shane Litherland
Silver wrote: On 30/01/2012 09:52, Shane Litherland wrote: Hi all, I'm lost. I have looked around in GRASS for how to report the area (e.g. in hectares) for a vector map that, yes, has area (i.e. centroids and boundaries). I cannot find a way to do this. A bit of web searching

Re: [GRASS-user] Re: GRASS-user] how to report/measure a vector area?

2012-01-30 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi all, yes,yesYES thank you for your inputs :-) it was a simple case of me not having a table with the info in to start with, so once i remedied that with v.to.db (hello old friend, where have you been hiding?) reports and map queries were a breeze, as well as easy calculations directly on the

[GRASS-user] RE: Hidrological network (ALT SHN)

2012-01-30 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi Andr, You mention that you have streams of different 'order', does that mean you have a table connected with a column containing a value for each bit of stream (e.g. the river and tributaries are a combination of vector lines, and each line between one stream junction and the next has a

[GRASS-user] Re: setting up GRASS svn

2012-01-22 Thread Shane Litherland
Neteler wrote: On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 5:44 AM, Shane Litherland litherland-f...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi Markus and mailing list; I tackled the svn setup today. after several hrs of web browsing, uninstalling old versions, and trying a few approaches to svn commands, I think I have succeeded

[GRASS-user] d.vect struggles on Map.Render() for 'larger' vectors

2012-01-21 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi GRASSers, I've just clarified something for myself, that I've only occasionally noticed before because most of my work is with small vector files. Starting to play with the North Carolina dataset highlighted this issue for me again, as it has some 'larger' files in there (not that I'd consider

[GRASS-user] Re: setting up GRASS svn

2012-01-20 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi Markus and mailing list; I tackled the svn setup today. after several hrs of web browsing, uninstalling old versions, and trying a few approaches to svn commands, I think I have succeeded. the 'info' under GRASS HELPABOUT GRASS GIS now shows I have 'GRASS GIS 6.4.2svn50340 (2012) A couple of

Re: [GRASS-user] tabbing between multiple displays in manager

2012-01-08 Thread Shane Litherland
backported to the 6.4's. -shane On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 17:10 +0100, Anna Kratochvílová wrote: Hi, On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Shane Litherland litherland-f...@bigpond.com wrote: passing thought - is there a way to rename the display tabs (currently just 'display 1', 'display 2' etc)? could

Re: [GRASS-user] GRASS 6.4.2RC2 crashing during digitising

2012-01-08 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi Martin, Markus; appreciate this guidance, I probably glossed over this tip somewhere in the manuals, you've saved me a bit of study time. Now for me to put it to use to help save you some time when it comes to deciphering my problematic posts ;-) Bear with me, I've got several paddocks worth

[GRASS-user] erroneous creation of single-point boundary

2012-01-07 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi again, I mentioned in an earlier post when GRASS crashed, that I eventually fixed via tcltk instead of wxgui, and found in the process a single-point boundary in the area I'd been digitising prior to a crash. I've found a few more times, that a single-point boundary gets incorrectly created,

[GRASS-user] GRASS 6.4.2RC2 crashing during digitising

2011-12-26 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi all, Note this is in the WXPYTHON GUI I have been digitising vectors, using tools including add new boundary or centroid, move vertex, delete vertex, split line, probably a few others too. Most of the time no problems, but I just had GRASS crash (all windows disappeared, only the 'terminal'

[GRASS-user] d.area.thematic ? and other d. in wxgui

2011-12-26 Thread Shane Litherland
Fellow GRASSers, I have been playing/reading through vector classification, in the help files under v.class, there is reference to d.area.thematic which actually opens up a help page for d.thematic.area. I was also looking via the wxgui search module, for either combination of these tools,

[GRASS-user] d.vect.thematic in wxgui

2011-12-26 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi again, here's some of my experience with the d.vect.thematic in 6.4.2RC2 wxgui: I tried doing a basic process through the dialog i.e. select a map, feature type=area, pick a column, 5 intervals, most of other settings were default. I ran it, and it showed the vector in thematic colouring, as

[GRASS-user] 6.4.2RC2 on ubuntu 10.04

2011-12-23 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi all, been busy away from computer last several weeks. Last I posted, was playing with ~RC1, and noting several little glitches, at least one of which I was supposed to file a bug report on... :-/ Have dusted off my login etc for doing that, and just installed the ~RC2 OK it seems, from

[GRASS-user] digitising area crashes GRASS in wx GUI

2011-12-23 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi all, this seems to be a serious thing! wxGUI, ubuntu 10.04, GRASS 6.4.2RC2; I created a new vector 'testing_vectors' for troubleshooting. obviously it was empty to start with. I chose 'digitize' from the listbox on top-right of map display window, then selected the vector from listbox that

[GRASS-user] RE: query tool in wxGUI doesn't work on multiple table connections

2011-12-23 Thread Shane Litherland
I found another case where the tool seems to not function fully: A different vector to my earlier post, has for a given centroid: layer 1: cats 4,5 and 107 layer 2: cat 40 I checked the connection to this info is fine within the wx digitiser using the attributes tool there. the query tool in

[GRASS-user] how to use 'copy cats' tool in wx digitiser

2011-11-20 Thread Shane Litherland
Another little query, am I using the 'copy categories' tool the wrong way... instructions when selecting that tool say 'left click =select; ctrl+left = unselect, right click=confirm' I have tried several combos of left and right, e.g. select/confirm source, select/confirm target; or select source,

Re: [GRASS-user] category number incrementing when digitising

2011-11-20 Thread Shane Litherland
on GRASS and a bunch of lost data... but if you want them, I can get them regards, shane. On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 11:19 +0100, Moritz Lennert wrote: On 16/11/11 07:12, Shane Litherland wrote: Hi all, 6.4.2RC1 on ubuntu 10.04.3, using wxgui when digitising new vector, in 'digitisation settings

Re: [GRASS-user] digitising area crashed GRASS

2011-11-20 Thread Shane Litherland
. digitising a boundary and manually adding a centroid doesn't seem to cause me this grief. Any more sleuthing required at my end? regards, shane. On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 11:23 +0100, Martin Landa wrote: 2011/11/16 Shane Litherland litherland-f...@bigpond.com: 6.4.2RC1 ubuntu 10.04.3 wxgui

[GRASS-user] wx digitiser destroyed my vector again

2011-11-20 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi all, just had an unsavoury experience for the second time since using wxgui in 6.4.2RC1 when digitising a vector that consisted of boundaries and centroids, I was attempting to split a boundary to add more adjacent boundaries/centroids. somewhere in process of trying/learning to get the

[GRASS-user] RE: more on misaligned rasters vs vectors

2011-11-18 Thread Shane Litherland
hi all, I had a similar oddity with two rasters that were in Albers Equal Area, which should have overlapped but appeared to be about 1.5 hemispheres apart... At first I thought the metadata may have been erroneous but maybe there's something else afoot. I got around it by opening them in

[GRASS-user] digitising area crashed GRASS

2011-11-17 Thread Shane Litherland
6.4.2RC1 ubuntu 10.04.3 wxgui Not as bad as it sounds though...only happened once so far. At first, I thought it was because I may have had the 'no category' or 'don't save to table' settings ( a hangover from whatever I'd just done), and when I used the area tool upon completion of a boundary

[GRASS-user] category number incrementing when digitising

2011-11-17 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi all, 6.4.2RC1 on ubuntu 10.04.3, using wxgui when digitising new vector, in 'digitisation settings' on 'attributes' tab, I can play around with settings to add record to table, auto or manual cat etc. Noted that when cat mode is 'next to use' clicking the checkbox on/off for 'add new record

[GRASS-user] better way to add layer categories?

2011-11-17 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi all, I have a vector, with three layers each connected to a different table. I heard about v.db.join and thought that would be a great tool, which it is but it doesn't satisfy me for this purpose, as it seems to result in the joined info displaying like one big table with all data from joined

Re: [GRASS-user] d.vect colour wheel not active wxGUI 6.4.2RC1

2011-10-25 Thread Shane Litherland
for my system. wx is 2.8.10.1 so that is same as what you have. Cheers, Shane. On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 12:18 +0200, Martin Landa wrote: Hi, 2011/10/20 Shane Litherland litherland-f...@bigpond.com: any others find this too? ubuntu 10.04.3 64 bit, wxGUI python 2.6 seems to work for me. Debian

Re: [GRASS-user] d.vect colour wheel not active wxGUI 6.4.2RC1

2011-10-20 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi Martin, Thanks for comment. will look into it further, including checking versions etc. -shane. On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 12:18 +0200, Martin Landa wrote: Hi, 2011/10/20 Shane Litherland litherland-f...@bigpond.com: any others find this too? ubuntu 10.04.3 64 bit, wxGUI python 2.6 seems

Re: [GRASS-user] map query tool in 6.4.2RC1 ???

2011-10-20 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi Martin, thanks for confirmation on query tool operation :-) Further on the other issue (below): A problem I find, is that some things I click on don't give results, I get this sort of error: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/grass-6.4.2RC1/etc/wxpython/gui_modules/mapdisp

Re: [GRASS-user] v.digit options in 6.4.2RC1

2011-10-20 Thread Shane Litherland
On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 12:47 +0200, Martin Landa wrote: Hi, 2011/10/20 Shane Litherland litherland-f...@bigpond.com: At first these three different ways to get to v.digit seemed a bit there is only one way how to start v.digit (Tcl/Tk, from the menu) and three ways how to reach wxGUI

[GRASS-user] v.db.join - am I using it right?

2011-10-19 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi all, On 6.4.2RC1, I have just played with v.db.join after seeing it suggested for a use I thought would benefit me (I'd briefly looked at it on 6.4.1 before upgrade, had similar 'errors' there too). when I open the dialog box for it (using wxpython GUI), from the listbox I can select vector

[GRASS-user] d.vect colour wheel not active wxGUI 6.4.2RC1

2011-10-19 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi all, in d.vect dialog, going to select colour for lines/fill, the colour wheel can be moved around with mouse, but the colour chosen on the wheel isn't recognised to start with by the dialog. I found I had to click on the eye-dropper icon, then click the colour wheel with the eye-dropper tool.

[GRASS-user] map display in 6.4.2RC1 incorrect on startup

2011-10-19 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi all, I have started grass wxGUI from a terminal, then open a saved workspace. that workspace has, vector 1 vector 2 vector 3 raster 1 in that order in layer manager. vectors are some lines/boundaries/centroids/points, raster is a fairly high-res aerial photograph. All of these layers are

[GRASS-user] map query tool in 6.4.2RC1 ???

2011-10-19 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi again all, In 6.4.1 wxGUI, I noticed that the query tool icon in map display gave user an option to query (display mode) or query (edit mode) - the former showed details in output window, the latter opened a dialog box allowing view/edit of data in connected table. now in 6.4.2RC1, there does

[GRASS-user] v.digit options in 6.4.2RC1

2011-10-19 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi all, the wxGUI v.digit seems nice! a few things different to tcltk digitiser to get used to but overall seems to have more versatility. I have noticed that if I go to vector menu in main window, the option there is for editing a vector with tcltk. To use the wx option, one has to either

[GRASS-user] v.digit in 6.4.2RC1 wxGUI destroyed my vectors, OK second attempt.

2011-10-19 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi again, last night I was playing with the wxGUI digitiser, first time I've used it (was not available in 6.4.1?) In figuring out how select/commit worked a little different with mouse, and how the display showed 'live' movements, I used the move/add/remove vertex tools, the edit line/boundary,

[GRASS-user] 6.4.2RC1 breaks libgdal1-1.8.0-grass package on ubuntu 10.04

2011-10-17 Thread Shane Litherland
hi all, since successful compile of ~RC1, have noted in synaptic package manager that it thinks libgdal1-1.8.0-grass is a broken package. Note, this wouldn't have arisen if I had 6.4.1 AND the newer version, I suppose? But having only 6.4.2RC1 is why the system is having a hissy fit ;-) the

[GRASS-user] 6.4.2RC1 on ubuntu 10.04 - successful

2011-10-16 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi all, Still early days in test-driving it, but I managed to swim the deep waters of compiling from source and I figured I have been successful because I can type 'grass64' in a terminal and things happen :-) FYI, below is what I did to 'build/configure/whatever-the-right-term-is' on ubuntu

[GRASS-user] d.vect anomalies 'fixed' in 6.4.2RC1

2011-10-16 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi all, over last couple of weeks, wrote about problems with the GUI for d.vect in wxpython. Basically, tweaking properties for vectors caused GRASS to freeze after a few operations of d.vect dialog. I have just been playing with d.vect in wxGUI and it seems to be working well :-) I've done 3-4

[GRASS-user] i.ortho.photo questions -testing in 6.4.2RC1

2011-10-16 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi again all, I'm trying i.ortho.photo from wxGUI to assess an earlier problem. So far I have hit a similar error message when zooming after a few GCP's are present, but I am wondering if I have done some things wrong in earlier steps. For entering camera position at step 6 for omega/phi/kappa,

Re: [GRASS-user] Re: d.vect dialog issues, and query tool issues (previously: GRASS GUI issues)

2011-10-13 Thread Shane Litherland
] 2.6.32-34-generic #77-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 13 19:39:17 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux If you want to see how to 'reproduce' the problems I have, refer back to earlier post/s. Thanks :-) shane. On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 12:07 +0200, Martin Landa wrote: Hi, 2011/10/11 Shane Litherland litherland-f

[GRASS-user] RE: Connect two tables in vector data

2011-10-13 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi Sebastian et al., I gathered from the original post, that you did manage to connect each table, separately to the vector, using different layers, which I have done myself several times. I then gathered that this was not what you ideally wanted, and you then proceeded to play with connection

[GRASS-user] 'Show attribute data' icon gives db.select error

2011-10-13 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi all, I've known about this for awhile but worked around it. Maybe it's already been reported, it's a small thing. Using tcltk GUI (ver. 6.4.1), when I have a vector layer, some options for settings include two icons to show table info - one prints column names in the output, the other is

[GRASS-user] Re: d.vect dialog issues, and query tool issues (previously: GRASS GUI issues)

2011-10-13 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi all, and Martin FYI, I see there's a 6.4.2RC release hot off the press. I've had a quick look at info about it, there's a sizeable amount of things been done around wxGUI/python, some of the stuff might still be on the wishlist for backporting etc, but I'll try and install a separate GRASS of

[GRASS-user] Multiple installs of GRASS?

2011-10-13 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi all, So, I know one can have a 'working' GRASS and a 'try-if-you-dare' GRASS on the one computer... a quick web search on how to do multiple grass installs gave me more info on laying turf than on computing though! The GRASS wiki has good info on compiling from source, but didn't see anything

Re: [GRASS-user] Multiple installs of GRASS?

2011-10-13 Thread Shane Litherland
with the existing one. Cheers, Paulo On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Shane Litherland litherland-f...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi all, So, I know one can have a 'working' GRASS and a 'try-if-you-dare' GRASS on the one computer... a quick web search on how

Re: [GRASS-user] Multiple installs of GRASS?

2011-10-13 Thread Shane Litherland
2011/10/13 Shane Litherland litherland-f...@bigpond.com Hi all, So, I know one can have a 'working' GRASS and a 'try-if-you-dare' GRASS on the one computer... a quick web search on how to do multiple grass installs gave me more info

[GRASS-user] orthophoto georeferencing stops working when adding points

2011-10-11 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi all, GRASS 6.4.1 on ubuntu 10.04 64 bit, tcltk GUI (because of other wxpython probs previously reported) Have been trying my hand at orthophoto georeferencing. I started with a digital image that was taken with a digital aerial camera. Has most of the camera settings required for the

Re: [GRASS-user] Re: d.vect dialog issues, and query tool issues (previously: GRASS GUI issues)

2011-10-11 Thread Shane Litherland
at 15:40 +0200, Martin Landa wrote: 2011/10/10 Shane Litherland litherland-f...@bigpond.com: Anyone know if newer versions of GRASS use python 2.6 or higher? GRASS (wxGUI) should work with python2.4+ (including 2.6 or 2.7). Python 3 is not supported. Martin

[GRASS-user] Re: d.vect dialog issues, and query tool issues (previously: GRASS GUI issues)

2011-10-10 Thread Shane Litherland
I just came across something more in regards to python misbehaviour - it may well be that GRASS 6.4.1 needs python 2.5 and ubuntu 10.04 has 2.6. One website that outlined their success with GRASS after getting the 2.5 python version is http://dipeshbhattarai.com/?p=57 (note they were using

[GRASS-user] d.vect dialog issues, and query tool issues (previously: GRASS GUI issues)

2011-10-08 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi all, With all quiet on the users emails on my subject, I went web-searching and found some leads: The ubuntu desktop themes seemed to have an issue reported for a range of programs that the GNOME/gtk settings needed hacking/tweaking, see

[GRASS-user] Re: Pango error, still relevant?

2011-10-08 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi all, in digging around for answers in regards to my 'd.vect problems I found a post by Antonio from 14 April 2010: . Hi I'm using GRASS6.4svn in an Ubuntu Machine and, when I start GRASS I get this warning at command line: (python:3305): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_layout_get_cursor_pos:

Re: [GRASS-user] r.mapcalc appears to have changed behavior

2011-10-03 Thread Shane Litherland
, http://csdc.asu.edu On Sep 30, 2011, at 11:35 PM, Shane Litherland wrote: Jim, et al., I am not an authority on GRASS, but it may not have been you that 'did that' - if you were using an earlier version and did a significant upgrade or a fresh install of a newer

[GRASS-user] RE: GRASS GUI issues

2011-10-01 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi again all, Took a break from computer, had a brilliant idea... ;-) Tried running GRASS in good old skool tcltk GUI - it happily let me query the map display, it happily accepted the sql 'where' clauses for layer that the python gui ignored, and it happily let me change numerous times, the

Re: [GRASS-user] r.mapcalc appears to have changed behavior

2011-10-01 Thread Shane Litherland
Jim, et al., I am not an authority on GRASS, but it may not have been you that 'did that' - if you were using an earlier version and did a significant upgrade or a fresh install of a newer version of GRASS, some fine details like this might end up with new default values (?) I recall doing a few

[GRASS-user] GRASS GUI issues

2011-09-30 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi all, I had GRASS 6.4.0 from stable rep's for ubuntu lucid 64-bit, and it was freezing when I opened the properties dialog for a vector layer. Worked OK the first time I used it for a layer, but if I tried going back to change things, everything just 'greyed out' and even after leaving it for a

Re: [GRASS-user] leftover node in v.digit

2011-01-09 Thread Shane Litherland
/9, Maciej Sieczka msiec...@sieczka.org: W dniu 08.01.2011 06:01, Shane Litherland pisze: Hi Maris, Have braved my first attempt at filing a bug report, and appear to have put enough together to generate a ticket Ticket #1256 leftover node when deleting boundaries vertex-by-vertex

Re: [GRASS-user] leftover node in v.digit

2011-01-09 Thread Shane Litherland
but i'd be stretching my computing skills there too.. Regards, Shane. On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 20:39 +0100, Maciej Sieczka wrote: W dniu 08.01.2011 06:01, Shane Litherland pisze: Hi Maris, Have braved my first attempt at filing a bug report, and appear to have put enough together to generate

[GRASS-user] v.digit 'next not used' cat error

2011-01-07 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi again fellow GRASSers, Just noticed this little issue (GRASS 6.4 on ubuntu 10.04) I am digitising boundaries, using 'no category' option, then I digitise centroids with 'next not used' and 'add to table', where I enter relevant info for my postgres db table. That's all fine. I then had a

[GRASS-user] leftover node in v.digit

2011-01-07 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi again, another little thing I found by accident, If digitising boundaries, then using 'remove vertex' to delete some of a boundary, vertex-by-vertex... If I kept going and removed all the vertexes (instead of the correct way of using 'delete point/line/boundary'), it was possible to end up

[GRASS-user] v.digit doesn't like mouse-wheel

2011-01-07 Thread Shane Litherland
while i'm on a roll with my complaining... i've known about this one for a while, so probably others do too. in the main v.digit monitor, or some of the GUI bits like 'attributes', if I try to use the mouse scroll up/down wheel, i get an error pop up, (or, if i wheel for more than one 'notch' of

Re: [GRASS-user] leftover node in v.digit

2011-01-07 Thread Shane Litherland
report with exact step-by-step how to reproduce this issue. http://trac.osgeo.org/grass Maris. 2011/1/7, Shane Litherland litherland-f...@bigpond.com: Hi again, another little thing I found by accident, If digitising boundaries, then using 'remove vertex' to delete some

[GRASS-user] Re: Assign attributes of start and enpoints to connecting lines

2010-12-12 Thread Shane Litherland
Hi Hanlie, I am getting out of my depth here, and might be leading you astray... But I had a little challenge a few months ago, wanting to generate points along a line to then use to create other tangent lines (in science terms, generating belt-transects across a gully, at randomly defined

[GRASS-user] RE: Where the grassdata base resides

2010-12-09 Thread Shane Litherland
Hiya, I have no probs with my GRASS having been set up (on Ubuntu) at /home/my-home/GIS/GRASSdata, which, for you, might be equivalent to c:/users/path-to-your-folders/GIS... (sorry, haven't used that OS for awhile)... I'd also recently installed it on a colleagues laptop, I think they were

[GRASS-user] Re: v.in-out quirks

2010-12-07 Thread Shane Litherland
time in GRASS and come up with my next 'victim'.. I reckon I can give v.digit and its friends a good workout! Regards, Shane. On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 12:03 +0200, Micha Silver wrote: Shane Litherland wrote: (my first-ever reply to the list...hope I get the cc / subject stuff right

[GRASS-user] Re: v.in-out quirks

2010-12-06 Thread Shane Litherland
at the source code (have figured out I can do that from source downloads, yay!) I'll see if I can narrow this one down too.. Hope someone finds a bit of useful stuff in all that rambling! regards, shane. On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 14:07 +0200, Micha Silver wrote: On 12/02/2010 02:01 PM, Shane Litherland

[GRASS-user] v.in-out quirks

2010-12-02 Thread Shane Litherland
hi all you GRASSers ;-) not sure what happened when i first tried to join the mailing list a few months ago, but i got my user/subscription sorted now :-) I have been using GRASS for a couple years now, more consistently in the last 12 months after a steady learning process. So hopefully as I