Re: [GRASS-user] r.sunmask cast shadow question

2014-01-04 Thread Tim Michelsen
Am 02.01.2014 23:13, schrieb Markus Neteler: You may consider r.sun as well in order to compute cast shadow. I played around with it recently, see http://courses.neteler.org/will-the-sun-shine-on-us/ Thanks for sharing this. Perhaps r.sun.hourly should get an additional flag to generate the

Re: [GRASS-user] r.sunmask cast shadow question

2014-01-04 Thread Tim Michelsen
Am 04.01.2014 15:12, schrieb Vaclav Petras: On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 6:17 AM, Tim Michelsen timmichel...@gmx-topmail.de mailto:timmichel...@gmx-topmail.de wrote: Am 02.01.2014 23:13, schrieb Markus Neteler: You may consider r.sun as well in order to compute cast shadow. I

Re: [GRASS-user] GRASS Android apps

2013-11-13 Thread Tim Michelsen
Calibre seems good for going from HTML to ePub and Mobi, and probably PDF too. PDF-eBook is apparently not a pretty thing. HTML actually seems the preferred starting format, so we should be able to make progress quickly. http://calibre-ebook.com/ At first I thought about a single large

Re: [GRASS-user] G7-gui and G64 add-on problems on Xubuntu (installation from grass/ubuntugis ppa)

2013-10-15 Thread Tim Michelsen
Dear all, I am receiving quite some of these mails on the LP packages for both version 6.x 7.x. There are even less constructive messages like: your PPA is broken. just let you know. fix it As noted in an earlier email: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.user/46947 I currently cannot

[GRASS-user] concatenating/combining two table fields for multi-field join

2013-08-05 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, would like to make a table join based on two fields. So suppose I have to create a new temporary join field (joinkey). I have the fields area (C2) and value (D2), per one area these do not repeat. So in Excel I did for preparing the source table for the other values: =(C2 D2) How can I

Re: [GRASS-user] Possible to switch off permissions check of mapsets?

2013-07-31 Thread Tim Michelsen
Am 31.07.2013 18:44, schrieb Michel Wortmann: And straight on to another question: Is there a way of switching of the permissions check when opening a mapset? It prevents me from opening mapsets that are mounted on different filesystems as the grass installation. E.g. if I try to open a

Re: [GRASS-user] Possible to switch off permissions check of mapsets?

2013-07-31 Thread Tim Michelsen
ERROR: MAPSET PERMANENT - permission denied Any solution to this would be much appreciated. In any of the current SVN versions, setting the environment variable GRASS_SKIP_MAPSET_OWNER_CHECK to any non-empty string will suppress the check. Yes, but what for the people who wanna rely on the

Re: [GRASS-user] Fill area between isolines?

2013-07-10 Thread Tim Michelsen
hello Marcus and others, just wanna give feedback and say thanks: How can I create an area that fills the area between these lines and to which the same value as the last adjacent line is attached (all points from one line to the other have the same cost factor)? You could try to 1.

[GRASS-user] raster legend on discrete maps not graduated

2013-07-09 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, I reclassified a continous integer value raster into discrete classes. But when adding a raster legend to the map, it still shows a continued, map with a colour gradient. This is not true as the raster map values have true and hard class breaks. How can I get aroudn this limitation of

Re: [GRASS-user] Instructions on how to compile a grass module in a Linux server (DEBIAN)

2013-04-26 Thread Tim Michelsen
Thank you Stephen I guess my System manager used GRASS-binary packages which it means that do not support this. Ask him to install the package grass-dev ___ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org

Re: [GRASS-user] Fwd: Re: ppa for grass 7 Ubuntu Quantal

2013-04-26 Thread Tim Michelsen
No, just this one: python: can't open file '/usr/lib/grass/etc/gui/wxpython/gis_set.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory Received EXIT message from GUI. that should be /usr/lib/grass70/etc/ not /grass/? Did the version number extract part of the build rules script work? maybe it

Re: [GRASS-user] Ubuntu Packages for Addons [was: Re: Fwd: Re: ppa for grass 7 Ubuntu Quantal]

2013-04-26 Thread Tim Michelsen
Below a suggestion for the packaging structure: regarding addon packaging. We can create packages like grassaddons(full addons) grassaddons-imgagery grassaddons-vector grassaddons-raster grasssaddons-general I question when looking at : http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass-addons I

Re: [GRASS-user] Fwd: Re: ppa for grass 7 Ubuntu Quantal

2013-04-25 Thread Tim Michelsen
your grass7.0 also gives error in g.version right?. I think it might be a bug in grass which need to be fixed. No, just this one: python: can't open file '/usr/lib/grass/etc/gui/wxpython/gis_set.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory Received EXIT message from GUI.

[GRASS-user] Ubuntu Packages for Addons [was: Re: Fwd: Re: ppa for grass 7 Ubuntu Quantal]

2013-04-25 Thread Tim Michelsen
Dear community of GRASS users, is there a need for having packages for the GRASS addons? Please give feedback by: (+1 / 0 / -1) And of saying yes (+1), would you voluteer in heping with packaing and maintaining the daily builds of the PPA? Please give feedback by: (+1 / 0 / -1) Below a

Re: [GRASS-user] Fwd: Re: ppa for grass 7 Ubuntu Quantal

2013-04-24 Thread Tim Michelsen
could you please test latest build of grass70 package for quantal? startup error seems to be gone but install extension has some issues related to g.version script I get for grass70: Hit RETURN to continue Starting GRASS GIS... python: can't open file

Re: [GRASS-user] Fwd: Re: ppa for grass 7 Ubuntu Quantal

2013-04-24 Thread Tim Michelsen
Am 24.04.2013 23:21, schrieb Markus Neteler: On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Tim Michelsen timmichel...@gmx-topmail.de wrote: ... I get for grass (6.4.x): 3D view mode: /usr/lib/grass64/lib/libgrass_ogsf.6.4.3svn.so: symbol TIFFSetField, version GDAL_1.8 not defined in file libgdal.so.1

Re: [GRASS-user] Fwd: Re: ppa for grass 7 Ubuntu Quantal

2013-04-22 Thread Tim Michelsen
/grass70_release_debian change and upload again. If you do not want to wait for LP builds, use pbuilder locally to test your changes. Feel free to ask if you have more questions! Kind regards, Timmie On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Tim Michelsen timmichel...@gmx-topmail.de mailto:timmichel...@gmx

Re: [GRASS-user] Fwd: Re: ppa for grass 7 Ubuntu Quantal

2013-04-22 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello all, nice that this discussion becomes lively now! the first thing that should happen is that the control files should be updated to pull from the latest from the DebianGIS git repository. I respect and recognise the work done there. 2 points where this is not always possible: * your

[GRASS-user] Help needed for package building for GRASS!

2013-04-15 Thread Tim Michelsen
Dear GRASS users and developers on Ubuntu, It seems [1, 2] that there is high demand for up-to-date packages of both grass stable (6.4.x) and development code (7.0.x) for Ubuntu. So we have put an overview on the situation on the wiki: http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Packaging

Re: [GRASS-user] GRASS 6.4 How to extract point-values from multiple rasters

2013-04-07 Thread Tim Michelsen
r.what [1] just prints out. Isn't the right tool v.sample [2]? r.what extracts values from one or more raster maps at locations given by coordinates. v.what.rast uploads raster values at positions of vector points to the table. But why is there v.sample if all other commands have similar

Re: [GRASS-user] GRASS 6.4 How to extract point-values from multiple rasters

2013-04-06 Thread Tim Michelsen
I have to extract isolated value from several raster. Interestingly. Yesterday I had the same task to solve: have a vector with some sampling points and wanting to insert values from 2 raster layers to the table. The GRASS module r.what [0] extracts raster values at a given location. As input

Re: [GRASS-user] Fwd: Re: ppa for grass 7 Ubuntu Quantal

2013-03-30 Thread Tim Michelsen
OK, I did it. Stable (grass6.4.X) Packages are in the grass-stable PPA: https://code.launchpad.net/~grass/+archive/grass-stable This includes Ubuntu 12.10 13.04! So let's try to run the recipe daily without errors: https://code.launchpad.net/~grass/+recipe/grass64 If you want to see how I

[GRASS-user] line buffering: many equal lines and table entry

2013-03-29 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello user list, I have a question concerning equal distant buffer lines I struggle in creating equal distant buffer lines for a central reference line (e.g. a river): E.g. say I have a river and would like to generate lines and as well areas of 10, 30, 50m distance to that river in order to

[GRASS-user] Raster classification by typical methods?

2013-03-29 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello user list, I have a question concerning raster works: classifying in by typical methods How can I create a reclassified raster from another raster with continuous values where the classification follows the following rules * equal steps (a class break every 100 or 50 [mg/m^2]) * equal

Re: [GRASS-user] Fwd: Re: ppa for grass 7 Ubuntu Quantal

2013-03-27 Thread Tim Michelsen
yes. there is. unbuntugis-testing PPA I found ubuntugis-testig, but it only goes up to precise - I am looking for quantal. Don't worry for now - I just compiled GRASS. What about contributing to the automatic development builds -- once yours works? Just push your changes to:

[GRASS-user] status of launchpad Ubuntu builds [WAS: Re: how to install GRASS binaries of weekly snapshot on ubuntu12.04?]

2012-10-28 Thread Tim Michelsen
Sidenote: I really hope that one day Ubuntu launchpad will deliver GRASS binaries... Since all code is well imported from SVN to LP: https://code.launchpad.net/~grass/grass/releasebranch_6_4 It is /*only/* an issue of updating the debian files:

Re: [GRASS-user] status of launchpad Ubuntu builds [WAS: Re: how to install GRASS binaries of weekly snapshot on ubuntu12.04?]

2012-10-28 Thread Tim Michelsen
I was having the same error in openSUSE OBS about gui/wxpython and it is now fixed in svn (branch_64). OK, I requested a build. let's see. I see that there is a direct mirror from subversion to bazaar in LP. All code is here: https://code.launchpad.net/~grass This should trigger a build on

[GRASS-user] Re: Installing GRASS 6.4.2 on Ubuntu

2012-03-26 Thread Tim Michelsen
Am 25.03.2012 18:58, schrieb John Ortiz: I'm trying to install GRASS 6.4.2 on Ubuntu. However when I launch GRASS it says it is version 6.4.1. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? You are right, the only reason is that grass 6.4.2 still are not available in Ubuntu repositories.. In this

[GRASS-user] Re: r.sunmask (position) and r.shaded.relief

2012-03-10 Thread Tim Michelsen
note that r.sun output maps can be used to good effect with the d.shadedmap module to make a more-correct version of a typical r.shaded.relief image. e.g. http://bambi.otago.ac.nz/hamish/grass/screenshots/deep_cove_rsun.jpg Wow, stunning. How was it generated? ps- debian has a site set up

[GRASS-user] Re: shaded relief

2012-03-10 Thread Tim Michelsen
is there a good tutorial or blog post somewhere that could guide me through the creation of a shaded relief (aero-imagery over DEM)? OK, I found more in the records of the ML: r.sunmask (position) and r.shaded.relief http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.user/42653/focus=42669 Also nice

[GRASS-user] Re: Grass 6.4.2 on Ubuntu 11.10

2012-02-27 Thread Tim Michelsen
is it known when Ubuntu and GRASS repos will be updated? I'm interested in a debian repo providing GRASS 6.4.2 could you please try the packages here: https://launchpad.net/~grass/+archive/grass-stable ___ grass-user mailing list

[GRASS-user] Re: i.pr -- g.extension and compiling error on ubuntu 11.10 64 bit

2012-02-04 Thread Tim Michelsen
Am 31.01.2012 00:05, schrieb Markus Neteler: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Gabriele N.gis...@libero.it wrote: Ciao. I have installed GRASS (6.4.1) from the repository and I can not install i.pr (add-on). With g.extension unfortunately 6.4.1 is too old in a sense that on Ubuntu

[GRASS-user] shaded relief

2012-01-18 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, is there a good tutorial or blog post somewhere that could guide me through the creation of a shaded relief (aero-imagery over DEM)? What are the recommended export settings for creating a GeoTIFF from such a composition? Thanks in advance, Timmie

[GRASS-user] analysing regional hydrology potential

2012-01-18 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, I would like to use GRASS for analysis regional potential for hydrology applications like run-off / small scale hydro power. So from a DEM I would create watersheds. But then I am still unaware of which tools and methodology to use. Is there a article or publication that detailes on

[GRASS-user] setting initial region boundaries / info from spatialreference.org

2012-01-10 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, for my projects I often have to create several locations: 1 in wgs84 lat/lon for importing data, another for the actual target projection (e.g. ETRS89)). One thing I always would like to have is the option to configure region extend and resolution setting by the projection default

[GRASS-user] Re: Grass on Ubuntu 11.04

2011-08-06 Thread Tim Michelsen
I'd like to install Grass on my Ubuntu 11.04. Could someone tell me if the Generic weekly snapshot of Grass works fine with this Ubuntu release? daily builds: https://launchpad.net/~grass/+archive/grass-stable Please enable UbuntuGIS PPA before. ___

[GRASS-user] Re: Problem installing GRASS 6.4.1 on Ubuntu 11.x

2011-06-21 Thread Tim Michelsen
maybe youd like to try these packages: https://launchpad.net/~grass/+archive/grass-stable Upon source change automatically built from GRASS source based on debian packaging: https://code.launchpad.net/~grass/+recipe/grass64 ___ grass-user mailing

[GRASS-user] Scripting Python from inside GRASS

2011-05-28 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, reading http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_and_Python I may still ask: * is there a IPython-enhanced Python scripting console withing GRASS? * What is the preferrred way to script grass from Python? * Do I need to be inside GRASS shell to script in order to have all environment parameters

[GRASS-user] Menu Mapping of commands in wxGUI

2010-10-27 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, there was nice PDF file created by Hamish that shows which grass command (module) is mapped to which menu in the wxGUI. I cannot find it on the following doc pages: * http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/index.html *

[GRASS-user] Re: First time trying to install add on g.extension (r.stream.order)

2010-09-25 Thread Tim Michelsen
note g.extension is rather new and untested compared the rest of the software, especially on Windows. Besides svn for building C modules, you will need a C compiler which doesn't ship with the GRASS installer. What about a automtaci build process on the server? Then the users would download a

[GRASS-user] Re: NetCDF Data in GRASS?

2010-09-09 Thread Tim Michelsen
I think there were (and believe still are) problems with gdal when configured for both hdf and netcdf formats - I believe you cant have both which (if still true) is too bad, because lots of climate related data come in both of these 2 formats. To my opinion QGIS or GRASS should have a similar

[GRASS-user] question on extensions

2010-02-15 Thread Tim Michelsen
Dear all, the GRASS addons are a wonderful resource for scripts. My questions here: 1) How do I install on Windows a) source addons that need to be compiled b) scripts that are written with bash or python 2) If I create a SVN checkout somewhere on my computer and add the checkout directory

[GRASS-user] g.extension with local SVN checkout

2010-02-14 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, is it possible to use g.extension with a local SVN checkout of the online repository at https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass-addons ? This could be convenient when working disconnected to the net. Alternatively, this program could also support other VCS tools such as Bazaar or Git. What do

[GRASS-user] Re: cutting issue (again): r.mapcalc vs. r.resample

2010-01-26 Thread Tim Michelsen
front-end, LyX, to be much quicker and more productive than writing LaTeX in emacs. So I'm not totally averse to using the pointy-thingie when it's demonstrably more productive. :-) The same applies to the new GRASS GUI. It's awesome and once you get acustomated pretty useful. You may wanna

[GRASS-user] i.sunhours

2010-01-25 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, what do the inputs for i.sunshine in GRASS7 mean? i.sunhours doy=name lat=name Thanks in advance, Timmie ___ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user

[GRASS-user] cutting issue (again): r.mapcalc vs. r.resample

2010-01-25 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, I while ago I asked how to cut a small map from a larger one using the region settings as boundary for the small map: http://n2.nabble.com/r-mapcalc-changes-color-table-td4072836.html#a4072836 I tried this again: Approach 1: r.mapcalc r.mapcalc cut=if(boundary_raster,

[GRASS-user] Re: cutting issue (again): r.mapcalc vs. r.resample

2010-01-25 Thread Tim Michelsen
I tried this again: Approach 1: r.mapcalc r.mapcalc cut=if(boundary_raster, large_map, null()) Approach 2: r.resample r.resample input=large_map output=cut I notice the that using Approach 2, the areas that was outside the set region is white. The underlayung

[GRASS-user] [Solved] Re: cutting issue (again): r.mapcalc vs. r.resample

2010-01-25 Thread Tim Michelsen
I while ago I asked how to cut a small map from a larger one using the region settings as boundary for the small map: http://n2.nabble.com/r-mapcalc-changes-color-table-td4072836.html#a4072836 I tried this again: Approach 1: r.mapcalc r.mapcalc cut=if(boundary_raster,

[GRASS-user] Re: Uploading bounding box of vectors to database?

2010-01-06 Thread Tim Michelsen
MAP=your_map_name v.db.addcol $MAP column=north DOUBLE PRECISION, \ south DOUBLE PRECISION, east DOUBLE PRECISION, west DOUBLE PRECISION eval `v.info -g $MAP` echo UPDATE $MAP SET north = $north, south = $south, \ east = $east, west = $west | db.execute With the latest efforts to

[GRASS-user] Show / Print current mapset

2009-12-09 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, which command line and GUI options do I have to get the current mapset? I am looking for a command that tells me the mapset selected when eneting GRASS. g.mapsets shows with its -p option all mapsets in the search path and g.mapset shows all in open locations. Could these two commands be

[GRASS-user] Re: r.mapcalc changes color table

2009-11-27 Thread Tim Michelsen
First, thanks to all who responded. I will try and apply that later. 6) use r.mapcalc to cut: r.mapcalc cut=if(boundary_raster, large_map, null()) Replace step 6 with: g.copy rast=boundary_raster,MASK r.resample input=large_map output=cut g.remove rast=MASK Can someone

[GRASS-user] r.mapcalc changes color table

2009-11-26 Thread Tim Michelsen
Dear Grass Users, I have a large georeferenced digital map. I successfully imported it into GRASS. Now I would like to cut only a small rectangle -- my investigation area -- out of this large map. I used the following approach: 1) import the TIFF 2) select the part of interest in the GRASS

[GRASS-user] grass course materials on windows

2009-09-30 Thread Tim Michelsen
Dear grass users, recently someone posted a link to some course materials for courses held with the windows version. I canot find the link anymore. May someone indicate me any material focusing on the GRASS windows installations? I would like to forward it to a group of new users that are not

[GRASS-user] Re: About NASA SSE Data

2009-09-21 Thread Tim Michelsen
-Monthly Averaged Clear Sky Insolation Clearness Index By its name -- without having read the description -- I would recommond this one. ___ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user

[GRASS-user] Re: user/group permissions for accessing data on mounted drive

2009-08-17 Thread Tim Michelsen
What is the best way to handle this? Use a filesystem which was designed for a multi-user OS. It could, but that replaces one problem (using FAT filesystems on Unix) with another (users accidentally trashing other users' mapsets). See the following use case: A desktop/notebook used by a

[GRASS-user] Re: user/group permissions for accessing data on mounted drive

2009-08-16 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, thanks a lot for the answer (on the weekend) ;-) You must be the owner of the directory selected as the current mapset. A FAT/VFAT partition mounted by root must be mounted with the uid= option to set the owner. OK. I was able to get access using the right uid in fstab. But let's say

[GRASS-user] user/group permissions for accessing data on mounted drive

2009-08-15 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, I have a question on the requirements GRASS has towards user/group permissions on linux: My data is stored on a vfat partition mounted by a Ubuntu Linux. The corresponding entry in the mount configuration file (/etc/fstab) goes: UUID=44FC-A7FD /media/daten vfat

[GRASS-user] Re: [GRASS GIS] #668: export and share region settings

2009-07-05 Thread Tim Michelsen
I think you mix up the purpose of location and mapsets- what you ask for is exactly what mapsets are do. It seemed to. And yes, this may come from experiences with other GIS programs, too. Note that not only ArcGIS works this way but also QGIS or gvSIG, for instance. Throw together data from

[GRASS-user] Re: link to datasets from other locations?

2009-07-05 Thread Tim Michelsen
By file system based copying? Yes. If you are sure the projections of the locations are the same, move the entire mapset over. I am still not 100% sure why data from mapsets in different locations with the same projection cannot be re-used in other locations. Why there are no g.mapset.move,

[GRASS-user] Re: #668: export and share region settings

2009-07-04 Thread Tim Michelsen
[straying more than slightly off-topic] If you are a fan of the structured/sanitized approach to data management you might enjoy the LyX word(document)-processor. It's a WYSIWYM frontend to the LaTeX typesetting language, and to use the vernacular- it rocks. For writing manuscripts there is

[GRASS-user] Re: link to datasets from other locations?

2009-07-04 Thread Tim Michelsen
What about a command that lets users safely move a vector from one locagion into the other? as above. this is on purpose to protect distinct map projections. please see my use case where a locations serves global datasets for other smaller locations. Or the one with a test / development

[GRASS-user] Re: link to datasets from other locations?

2009-07-04 Thread Tim Michelsen
moving from one location to another location (which usually is/should be of another projection) is safely done with v.proj. Why use another command for that? Then v.proj should support: * -r flag for importing only the current region extend * -ship_project flag if source target locations have

[GRASS-user] Re: [GRASS GIS] #668: export and share region settings

2009-07-04 Thread Tim Michelsen
I don't understand what you want to do here. Image the following use case: You have project location. Then you would like to test out some new processing workflows or developed a new methodology. In order not to pollute the project location with a lot of test rasters, you start a new location to

[GRASS-user] Re: link to datasets from other locations?

2009-07-04 Thread Tim Michelsen
moving from one location to another location (which usually is/should be of another projection) is safely done with v.proj. Why use another command for that? Then v.proj should support: * -r flag for importing only the current region extend * -ship_project flag if source target locations have

[GRASS-user] Re: link to datasets from other locations?

2009-07-04 Thread Tim Michelsen
add the mapset as a symlink to the mapset in the other location, then use the @othermapset notation. As GRASS is aim to support Windows, this is not an option ___ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org

[GRASS-user] Re: link to datasets from other locations?

2009-07-04 Thread Tim Michelsen
Maybe I am misunderstanding the concept of mapsets. And that the develpers meat mapsets to provide this kind of functionality. I read the basic explanation at: http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Gis_Concepts#How_a_GRASS_project_is_organized So for testing new data or methods, I definately should use a

[GRASS-user] Re: [GRASS GIS] #668: export and share region settings

2009-07-04 Thread Tim Michelsen
I don't understand what you want to do here. Image the following use case: You have project location. Then you would like to test out some new processing workflows or developed a new methodology. In order not to pollute the project location with a lot of test rasters, you start a new location to

[GRASS-user] Re: link to datasets from other locations?

2009-07-04 Thread Tim Michelsen
add the mapset as a symlink to the mapset in the other location, then use the @othermapset notation. As GRASS is aim to support Windows, this is not an option ___ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org

[GRASS-user] Re: link to datasets from other locations?

2009-07-02 Thread Tim Michelsen
Sorry, Hamish already gave an answer to that in his first reply: add the mapset as a symlink to the mapset in the other location, then use the @othermapset notation. BTW, how do you do this on a Windows computer? ___ grass-user mailing list

[GRASS-user] Re: link to datasets from other locations?

2009-07-01 Thread Tim Michelsen
So sharing data between locations is not really supported? Not at all supported. (except for v.proj, r.proj, i.rectify) What about a command that lets users safely move a vector from one locagion into the other? Even if I just want to add the layer to the map view? if you want to mix

[GRASS-user] link to datasets from other locations?

2009-06-30 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello grass users, There exist v.external and r.external to link to data which hasn't been imported into GRASS. But in order to save time and disk space I would like to link to data sets from other locations: How do I link to a raster and vector data in another location presuming it has

[GRASS-user] Re: Subtraction of raster maps

2009-06-24 Thread Tim Michelsen
r.mapcalc newmap = landcover - buildings if I understand right this might work for you, if everything that is not a building in your 'buildings' map is no data (null): r.mapcalc newmap = if(isnull(buildings),landcover,null()) The outcome is a map showing only the buildings and no

[GRASS-user] Re: v.out.ogr kml

2009-06-24 Thread Tim Michelsen
Actually,I have reproject the map-I create a new location with the latitude (epsg 4326),then use r.proj commond to reproject the map,however when I display the map I found there is a very serious distortion,the exported kml is also So I have give up the idea. I am talking about vectors.

[GRASS-user] zoom to point

2009-06-23 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, How do I zoom to a certain point (e.g. -3, 35) in the GRASS map window? Kind regards, Timmie ___ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user

[GRASS-user] problem creating point layer from CSV file

2009-06-23 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, I tried to create a point vector from a table with coordinates: db.in.ogr dsn=points_in.csv output=points key=myid v.in.db --overwrite table=points x=UTM_E y=UTM_N key=myid output=points_vect = ERROR: x/y/z column must be integer or double Why do I get this error? How to I change the

[GRASS-user] Re: zoom to point

2009-06-23 Thread Tim Michelsen
wxGUI: Go to in Map display statusbar? GRASS = 6.5. do you refer to https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/develbranch_6/? ___ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user

[GRASS-user] v.out.ogr kml

2009-06-23 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, when exporting from a projected system to KML, is a reprojection into WGS84 included? in the manual there is: v.out.ogr input=random3d_hull dsn=random3d_hull.kml format=KML \ type=face dsco=AltitudeMode=absolute Let's say I use the EPSG:2965 projection. in my works. Exporting to KML

[GRASS-user] Re: GIS Manager map properties (wxpython)

2009-06-17 Thread Tim Michelsen
Are the GUI program files byte-compiled into *.pyc files during install? not sure what happens in the installer, but if not that should happen automatically the first time you run it, assuming you have write permissions in the install directory. fwiw using the rc5 native wingrass

[GRASS-user] v.proj failed

2009-06-17 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, I am trying to reproject a vector from latlon/wgs84 to a UTM/projected location The program aborts with the message: v.proj: split_q.c:69: RTreeClassify: Assertion `!p-taken[i]' failed. What does this mean? How can I get around this? I run this comand Ubuntu 9.04, 64svn. Thanks for

[GRASS-user] Re: New WinGrass Release (6.4.0RC5)

2009-06-16 Thread Tim Michelsen
icons) but the wxpython GUI still does not include vector digitizing (wxvdigit) or 3d visualization (wxnviz). the last time I ended up in the hell of mixing libraries built using mingw (GRASS) and msvs (wxpython). Currently I have no time for this kind of fun. If somebody put on wiki

[GRASS-user] Re: GIS Manager map properties (wxpython)

2009-06-16 Thread Tim Michelsen
By the way, I just started using the WxPython interface for good and I got to say it's great. The only drawback is that it's slower than the tcltk interface. But that is probably due to my very weak and old laptop (1Ghz Transmeta Crusoe processor) I noticed that also. I use a Intel multi-core

[GRASS-user] Re: wiki page for compiling on Ubuntu

2009-06-15 Thread Tim Michelsen
I guess here http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu I put it here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/geos/+bug/387299 What to do under the current situation if libgeos does not work: 1) open synaptic 2) search for geos 3) select the package libgeos-c1 4) menu package - force

[GRASS-user] Re: wiki page for compiling on Ubuntu

2009-06-15 Thread Tim Michelsen
BTW, where do I report errors with the UbuntuGIS PPA packages? Here are more infos: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ubuntu/2009-May/16.html ___ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user

[GRASS-user] r.in.external in GUI

2009-06-13 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, I cannot find r.in.external in the wxPython based GUI: http://grass.itc.it/grass64/manuals/html64_user/r.external.html Would it be possible to add support for * r.in.external for a single layer * r.in.external for multiple layers in the same way as it is provided with r.in.gdal? The

[GRASS-user] Re: correcting a series of images for wrong bounding box (extend)

2009-04-29 Thread Tim Michelsen
My current idea is to play with the bounding box (extend) definitions when defining the projection of the location and then import-/reimport. IS there a option in GRASS to shift a raster by a vector (x, y)? I found such a tool in the ArcMap Toolbox. Regards, Timmie

[GRASS-user] Re: GRASS 6.4.0 RC3 released

2009-01-26 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, great news. Key improvements of the GRASS 6.4.0 release include enhanced portability for MS-Windows (native support), hundreds of fixes, the new wxPython based portable graphical interface and much new functionality. I would like to test the Windows port. I didn't find a installer for

[GRASS-user] Re: detection of landscape features from landsat

2009-01-25 Thread Tim Michelsen
Besides that you can also generate indices or do a transform. See for example http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/i.tasscap.html - 'Wetness' Tasseled Cap component 3 (screenshot) thanks for this hint. looks useful. For completeness, I found also: * Impervious surface

[GRASS-user] detection of landscape features from landsat

2009-01-23 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, I aim to delineate landscape features -- especially water bodies -- from Landsat imagery. There was a publication where this was conducted with ArcSDE Oracle at [1]. My question: has anyone tried such a task with GRASS? Which combination of tools/commands lead to the best results?

[GRASS-user] getting a polygone outline of raster areas

2008-09-26 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, I have a raster which was calculated from r.mapcalc and therefore contains areas with NULL values. Is there any procedure I can use to get an raster (or better vector) with the outline of all coherent or connected areas where the raster values are not NULL? Example: Imagine a raster with

[GRASS-user] Re: vector operations based on rasters

2008-09-25 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, thanks for your help. but this is not all that I was looking for. Basically, I'd like to run v.extract/v.overlay not on a vector-to-vector basis but on a vector-to-raster basis. g.region rast=dem_name v.in.region dem_box then v.overlay or v.select, depending on if you want to want

[GRASS-user] Re: strange ETRS89 settings and v.out.ogr

2008-08-18 Thread Tim Michelsen
This datum name is very unusual and I'm not sure where it could have come from. What version of GRASS? What is the exact commandline you used? ii grass 6.3.0-0 Geographic Resources Analysis Support System ii grass-doc

[GRASS-user] Re: creating a new vector layer by table selection fails

2008-08-13 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hi, thanks for the fast response. '(name = Ukraine)' is bogus, should be where=name = Ukraine It worked finally with where=name = 'Ukraine' Timmie ___ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org

[GRASS-user] v.in.ogr imports some areas of shapefile twice or more

2008-07-31 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, I have a shapefile containing 150 polygons. After importing this shapefile with v.in.ogr and then adding it to a qgis prject I observe that it has more polygons than the original data source. I tested it by overlaying the original shapefile in QGIS as a normal (non-GRASS) vector. This is

[GRASS-user] Re: import a folder full of shapefiles and reproject on-the-fly?

2008-07-30 Thread Tim Michelsen
Here you can find some scripts, perhaps useful. Thanks you for these scripts. They are really useful. I tried the merge process with the script shpmerge.sh that Paolo sent. That is really effective and works well. The only issue is that it show the following error in the bash: shpmerge.sh:

[GRASS-user] Re: import a folder full of shapefiles and reproject on-the-fly?

2008-07-30 Thread Tim Michelsen
* I cannot just point the program to a directory of shapefiles and tell it import all. QGIS, gvSIG and ArcGIS can do this. We could easily add v.in.ogr.all or v.external.all, I suppose two or three lines of shell script :) Could be stored in the Addons wiki. I added the script from

[GRASS-user] Re: import a folder full of shapefiles and reproject on-the-fly?

2008-07-30 Thread Tim Michelsen
We could easily add v.in.ogr.all or v.external.all, I suppose two or three lines of shell script :) Could be stored in the Addons wiki. Could be easily done in wxGUI too... I created a ticket at: http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/240 ___

[GRASS-user] Re: import a folder full of shapefiles and reproject on-the-fly?

2008-07-30 Thread Tim Michelsen
Some defect it seems. Please report to Trac (with details how to reproduce). I upgraded the memory (RAM) of that PC to 1 GB. Now it works. ___ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user

[GRASS-user] Re: import a folder full of shapefiles and reproject on-the-fly?

2008-07-29 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, Here you can find some scripts, perhaps useful. Thanks you for these scripts. They are really useful. Nevertheless, I cannot get around expressing my disappointment about GRASS in this area. * I cannot just point the program to a directory of shapefiles and tell it import all. QGIS,

[GRASS-user] calibrating a interpolated or contour map

2008-07-29 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, what methodes are recommended to use within GRASS to calibrate a map with by using geostatistical methods? OK, normally the method depends on the kind of data. Therefore I may give an example: I have long-term meteorological mesurement data (timeseries aggregated to monthly frequency)

[GRASS-user] how to speed of map generation with ps.map?

2008-07-29 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, for my current project I would like to create some postscript maps. When I run ps.map it takes a lot of time. I use a DEM as raster layer and country borders as vector layer on top of it. The DEM covers two SRTM tiles. Is there any way to speed the process up? How do I best set the

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