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

2008-07-25 Thread Paolo Craveri
Tim, I had a similar problem some time ago, with a lots of shapefiles (very large area, forest cover). Here you can find some scripts, perhaps useful. I think it is better to reproject and merge shapefiles via ogr2ogr. The very trivial task (in my experience) was to clean vector after import in

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

2008-07-24 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 23/07/08 23:45, Maciej Sieczka wrote: Moritz Lennert pisze: On 23/07/08 22:36, Maciej Sieczka wrote: Use ogr2ogr to reproject Shapefiles outside GRASS (it accepts directory of shapefiles as input as well as single shapefiles) and then import them all with v.in.ogr. You can automate

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

2008-07-24 Thread Glynn Clements
Moritz Lennert wrote: Use ogr2ogr to reproject Shapefiles outside GRASS (it accepts directory of shapefiles as input as well as single shapefiles) and then import them all with v.in.ogr. You can automate v.in.ogr in Shell using for in do syntax (plenty of examples in the archive or

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

2008-07-24 Thread Paul Kelly
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Moritz Lennert wrote: I won't make an issue of this, but there is a difference in that v.in.ogr takes a data source (directory or file) as input, and this data source can contain many layers. AFAIK, it's the only *.in.* module to do this. But I don't care enough to worry

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

2008-07-24 Thread Glynn Clements
Moritz Lennert wrote: Note this loads the Shapefiles as *layers* (in the GRASS meaning of it) of a single output vector map. Not necessarily what one might want. No definitely not. Didn't know that. IMHO this should be changed... If you want to load multiple files as individual maps,

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

2008-07-24 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 24/07/08 15:13, Glynn Clements wrote: Moritz Lennert wrote: Use ogr2ogr to reproject Shapefiles outside GRASS (it accepts directory of shapefiles as input as well as single shapefiles) and then import them all with v.in.ogr. You can automate v.in.ogr in Shell using for in do syntax

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

2008-07-23 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, I am analysiing data for a whole country. To get an idea of the landuse I would like to use corine landcover (CLC) tiles in shapefile format. My location is in Lat/Lon (WGS84). Is there any way that I can import all tiles at once and also reprojecting the CLC shapes into LL? In the GRASS

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

2008-07-23 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 23/07/08 22:36, Maciej Sieczka wrote: Tim Michelsen pisze: Is there any way that I can import all tiles at once and also reprojecting the CLC shapes into LL? Use ogr2ogr to reproject Shapefiles outside GRASS (it accepts directory of shapefiles as input as well as single shapefiles) and

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

2008-07-23 Thread Maciej Sieczka
Moritz Lennert pisze: On 23/07/08 22:36, Maciej Sieczka wrote: Use ogr2ogr to reproject Shapefiles outside GRASS (it accepts directory of shapefiles as input as well as single shapefiles) and then import them all with v.in.ogr. You can automate v.in.ogr in Shell using for in do syntax