Re: [GRASS-user] define a region by 2 epsg

2016-03-20 Thread Alex Mandel
How far into the second UTM Zone does your region go? If not far and the distortion is acceptable you can reproject 1 into the other. Otherwise you need to find or create a Projection that does a better job of covering your region. A UTM projection is unlikely to be a good candidate in this case.

Re: [GRASS-user] geogrid not smooth in ps.map output

2016-02-07 Thread Alex Mandel
Tyler, The general issue (also exists in QGIS) is that grid/graticule creators commonly only create nodes where 2 lines intersect. The solution generically is that you need to increase the node density of each line so that there are more points to bend the line along when projected. As an

Re: [GRASS-user] straight skeleton

2015-11-24 Thread Alex Mandel
On 11/24/2015 07:23 AM, Sandro Santilli wrote: > Does GRASS have a straight skeleton [1] implementation ? > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_skeleton > > --strk; > ___ > grass-user mailing list > grass-user@lists.osgeo.org >

Re: [GRASS-user] 64 bit Python in GRASS 6.4.2

2014-09-26 Thread Alex Mandel
The suggestion is that your reinstall GRASS using the OSGeo4w64 installer. You likely used the OSGeo4w previously, which is a 32 bit bundle of open source geo software. You can't just swap out the python you have to get everything compiled for 64bit. Thanks, Alex On 09/26/2014 08:30 AM, Orr,

Re: [GRASS-user] problem to install grass70 on ubuntu 12.04

2014-09-18 Thread Alex Mandel
:23 PM, Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com wrote: libgdal1h does not exist in stock Ubuntu 12.04 but does in 14.04 It was a name change introduced in Debian/UbuntuGIS to deal with some libtiff build issue. In order for the package to work it needs to say libgdal1 || libgdal1h (basically

Re: [GRASS-user] problem to install grass70 on ubuntu 12.04 and dependencies for kriging

2014-08-28 Thread Alex Mandel
You need to install libgeos-dev, libproj-dev etc and build-essential. Installation of R packages on Linux often requires compiling so you need all the source headers and compilers for it to work. -Alex On 08/28/2014 02:57 AM, John Nicholls wrote: Hi Thanks for the help to get Grass7 running on

Re: [GRASS-user] problem to install grass70 on ubuntu 12.04

2014-08-27 Thread Alex Mandel
libgdal1h does not exist in stock Ubuntu 12.04 but does in 14.04 It was a name change introduced in Debian/UbuntuGIS to deal with some libtiff build issue. In order for the package to work it needs to say libgdal1 || libgdal1h (basically OR). Quick workaround is to add the ubuntugis-unstable ppa

Re: [GRASS-user] GRASS download statistics ?

2014-08-14 Thread Alex Mandel
On 08/14/2014 05:01 AM, Peter Löwe wrote: Hi, where can current download statistics for GRASS binaries/sources be found: how many downloads - by the hour/day/month, - by platform(Linux/Mac/Win); how many active mirrors, etc ? Best, Peter peter.lo...@gmx.de

Re: [GRASS-user] Obtaining long/lat data from GRASS points

2014-07-22 Thread Alex Mandel
I was thinking, v.out.ogr to either GPX or GPSBabel format http://www.gdal.org/ogr_formats.html Those formats should be easy to load onto a GPS. Enjoy, Alex On 07/22/2014 12:32 PM, Micha Silver wrote: What you need is the v.to.db module. It takes an option= parameter which you set to coor

[GRASS-user] Downtime Notice for many OSGeo Hosted sites

2014-04-18 Thread Alex Mandel
The following sites will be down later today for hardware maintenance starting at approximately http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140418T2000 Outage will likely take a couple of hours. All OSGeo hosted mailing lists will also likely be down. Messages sent during that time

Re: [GRASS-user] mantel correlogram

2014-03-11 Thread Alex Mandel
Use R. It includes Moran's I and Geary's C tests for spatial-autocorrelation. Look like it has mantel too. You'll probably need the sp, spdep and rgdal packages. You might also want to use the Raster package to extract the sampling data, or you can use spGRASS to tie the R and Grass together.

Re: [GRASS-user] mantel correlogram

2014-03-11 Thread Alex Mandel
for the statistical analyses, but using GRASS GIS in combination with R is the easiest path, I think. Tom On Tuesday, March 11, 2014, Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com wrote: Use R. It includes Moran's I and Geary's C tests for spatial-autocorrelation. Look like it has mantel too. You'll probably

Re: [GRASS-user] convert NetCDF to XYZ

2014-02-19 Thread Alex Mandel
On 02/19/2014 02:06 PM, Rob Bowen wrote: Just installed Grass GIS. I have a number of NetCDF (.nc) files that I would like to convert to XYZ files. Can this be done with this program? Thanks Yes, http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/NetCDF If you just want to convert between formats and not

Re: [GRASS-user] How to import R-generated .gri/.grd raster files in grass ?

2014-02-19 Thread Alex Mandel
More information: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/raster/vignettes/rasterfile.pdf So yes easiest option is to open with R and use the raster package/rgdal to save it out to another format that GRASS can read. Maybe we should ask gdal to add the format, seems easy enough and I know the

Re: [GRASS-user] How to import R-generated .gri/.grd raster files in grass ?

2014-02-19 Thread Alex Mandel
on even the basic steps in these programs. Rob On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.comwrote: More information: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/raster/vignettes/rasterfile.pdf So yes easiest option is to open with R and use the raster package

Re: [GRASS-user] Installing grass70, not in ubuntugis-testing repository

2013-07-31 Thread Alex Mandel
On 07/31/2013 09:33 AM, Michel Wortmann wrote: Hi there, does anyone know why grass70 is not in the ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-testing repository. I.e. this fails under Ubuntu 12.04LTS: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-testing sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install grass70

Re: [GRASS-user] Re: ArcGIS vs GRASS notes

2012-04-02 Thread Alex Mandel
I can clarify some of the questions... Arc has dropped Visual Basic in favor of python, in the current 10.x series though python can only interact with tools in the toolbox (making it quite similar to how GRASS works). Anything more directly using Arc libs to build applications at the low level

Re: [GRASS-user] Measuring Distance Along a Line

2012-01-18 Thread Alex Mandel
On 01/18/2012 12:32 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Alex Mandel wrote: I'm not sure I get what you're trying to do, but distance along a line would be in the v.net module. Alex, When I read the v.net man page it suggested that it provided distances from node-to-node

Re: [GRASS-user] Filling an Area Added to Vector Map

2012-01-11 Thread Alex Mandel
On 01/11/2012 11:59 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: I've not done this before and my trial-and-error approach doesn't work. I need to add a reservoir to a stream system so I used the on-screen editing feature to digitize the area, then rebuilt the topology. But, despite having a fill color selected

Re: [GRASS-user] Patch tiles faster

2011-10-05 Thread Alex Mandel
What about creating a gdal vrt, then if you need one file you can convert it to another format. Alex On 10/05/2011 12:06 AM, Massimiliano Cannata wrote: Hi, don't know about speed but maybe take a look at gdal_merge.py, it may works out... Maxi On 10/04/2011 07:27 PM, Radim Blazek

Re: [GRASS-user] .LAS file

2011-06-15 Thread Alex Mandel
On 06/15/2011 10:21 AM, Harish wrote: Dear All, Why QGIS is not able to open .las (LIDAR Data Exchange File) formats. Is it not under Gdal support? Regards First this is a QGIS question, not a a GRASS question. Should be asked on qgis-u...@lists.osgeo.org No GDAL\OGR does not directly

Re: [GRASS-user] mediawiki: recorded desktop sessions

2011-04-25 Thread Alex Mandel
On 04/25/2011 03:25 AM, Martin Landa wrote: Hi all, I would like to allow uploading recorded desktop sessions to our Mediawiki as embedded files in wiki pages. I found recordMyDesktop [1] as a good choice for recording sessions. This software produces OGV file [2]. At this point I have

Re: [GRASS-user] Converting from FileGDB

2011-03-01 Thread Alex Mandel
On 03/01/2011 11:36 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: The USGS national hydrographic dataset (NHD) by states is available only as a FileGeoDataBase (FileGDB). When I look on the GDAL/OGR Web site I see that the Personal (PGDB) format is supported, but I don't see that the FGDB is. My attempt to

Re: [GRASS-user] when was the first release of Grass 64 bit?

2011-02-02 Thread Alex Mandel
I don't think non-commercial enterprises get considered in Industry sometimes. So the statement is sorta true from their perspective (though not in reality). Also in the context of applications that run on a Windows OS it wouldn't be surprising because there wasn't a stable 64 bit windows back

Re: [GRASS-user] SVN Client - Windows?

2011-01-26 Thread Alex Mandel
On 01/26/2011 02:30 AM, Johannes Radinger wrote: Hej, I want to install GRASS GIS add ons via the g.extension module. Therefore I need the SVN client. Is there one special client I need. Which client do you recomend for Windows? cheers Johannes Tortoisesvn is the recommended client for

Re: [GRASS-user] python module under wingrass7

2010-12-13 Thread Alex Mandel
On 12/13/2010 02:28 PM, gianluca.massei wrote: Well, excuse me if I was not clear in previous message. I'll try to give more info: In grass 7 for linux my python module works fine. In wingrass70 I've copied my module in %GISSBASE%/scripts but it doesn't works. I get that message: c:\Progrm

Re: [GRASS-user] GRASS GIS for iPhone or iPad

2010-12-09 Thread Alex Mandel
I do believe I've seen people talking about getting spatialite on the iOS though which would give you a GIS processing system as a backend to any program you might want. The other way to think about it - what about a Pywps app that calls a server with GRASS to do stuff and pass it back to the

Re: [GRASS-user] Best operating system for GRASS

2010-12-04 Thread Alex Mandel
On 12/04/2010 05:50 AM, Micha Silver wrote: On 12/04/2010 03:03 PM, Nikos Alexandris wrote: Nikos A: For your favorite OS, how hard is it to learn for a guy like me who has always used Windows? Also, something very important. Before you buy a new system, to install any linux

Re: [GRASS-user] WinGRASS Requirements + Internet Explorer

2010-11-15 Thread Alex Mandel
On 11/15/2010 01:10 AM, Nikos Dumakis wrote: Greetings I've been searching on GRASS GIS webiste for a list of WiNGRASS requirements but I wasn't able to find anything. Where can I find this? 2- Since GRASS uses an Internet Browser to display some manuals (etc), I wanted to know if it

Re: [GRASS-user] Values from multiple raster - to link together

2010-11-15 Thread Alex Mandel
On 11/15/2010 10:59 AM, Gabriele N. wrote: Hello everyone. I have to solve a problem already discussed here: http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/r-mapcalc-concatenates-values-td1884970.html#a1884973 In summary, I have for example 3 maps A, B, C. I need to combine the values of the

Re: [GRASS-user] Which version is advisable - SVN or stable

2010-10-17 Thread Alex Mandel
On 10/17/2010 08:11 AM, Chethan S wrote: Greetings! I am a PG student using GRASS GIS and R for my dissertation work in Ubuntu 10.04. As of now in the ubuntugis PPA, GRASS 6.4.0 version rc6 version is available. As I always want to use the latest stable version available and now since the

Re: [GRASS-user] Creating a winGRASS distribution

2010-06-13 Thread Alex Mandel
On 06/11/2010 12:58 AM, Monica Buescu wrote: Greetings My name is Monica and I'm a grad students of Environmental Systems analysis. To a final project I have been developing all my work on GRASS (6.4.0) (Linux) which includes not only using GRASS' modules but adding a few ones (simples). My

Re: [GRASS-user] grass 7 monitor

2010-05-23 Thread Alex Mandel
Dave Roberts wrote: Fiends, I'm a GRASS newbie trying to choose between GRASS6 and GRASS7 for a new project. I'm working in R and PostgreSQL, but have lots of Arc stuff to import. I realize that GRASS7 did away with d.mon, but is there really no replacement other than the full

Re: [GRASS-user] R-GDAL incompatible libraries

2010-03-02 Thread Alex Mandel
Kim Besson wrote: Following Leo's suggestion I installed GDAL 1.6.3 and I tried again: library(spgrass6) Loading required package: sp Loading required package: rgdal Geospatial Data Abstraction Library extensions to R successfully loaded Loaded GDAL runtime: GDAL 1.6.3, released 2009/11/19

Re: [GRASS-user] Create a line from 2 points

2010-02-04 Thread Alex Mandel
Hamish wrote: Alex wrote: Given sets of points with the same category what command would I use to turn each set into a line? Does v.build.polylines work in this case? These seems like a common thing to do, but I can't seem to find any examples. have a look at the brand new script

[GRASS-user] Create a line from 2 points

2010-02-03 Thread Alex Mandel
Given sets of points with the same category what command would I use to turn each set into a line? Does v.build.polylines work in this case? These seems like a common thing to do, but I can't seem to find any examples. Thanks, Alex ___ grass-user

Re: [GRASS-user] Ubuntu LTS version of grass 6.4

2010-01-28 Thread Alex Mandel
Giovanni Manghi wrote: Hi, in the ubuntugis ppa repository you have the 6.5rc5 version for Ubuntu Hardy https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable?field.series_filter=hardy cheers -- Giovanni -- 6.4 was in there at some point, if you really need 6.4 we can

[GRASS-user] Re: [Qgis-user] latitude map

2010-01-19 Thread Alex Mandel
A. Marcia BARBOSA wrote: Hi, What is the best way of getting a raster map (global coverage, lat-long coordinates) in which the value of each pixel is its latitude? I'm thinking of digitizing the upper and lower horizontal limits of the region, giving them the values of the maximum and

Re: [GRASS-user] 6.4 Release Candidate versions

2009-12-16 Thread Alex Mandel
Hamish wrote: Roy wrote: Quick query - are there any plans to provide Grass 6.4 binaries in the current Ubuntu LTS format? Unfortunately this is still Ubuntu 8.04 with the next LTS not due until the middle of 2010. you'd have to check with the UbuntuGIS team.

[GRASS-user] Re: [Live-demo] Updating the software

2009-11-29 Thread Alex Mandel
Hamish wrote: Firman Hadi wrote: I have downloaded the LiveDVD and installed it as Virtual Machine using VMWare. I want to install another package, gftp, so I have to 'apt-get update' but there is an error reaching http://mirror.math.ucdavis.edu, which is written in /etc/apt/sources.list I

Re: [GRASS-user] Piping Commands

2009-11-23 Thread Alex Mandel
I would consider it best practice to run 2 commands in sequence, storing the intermediate product. It can save you a lot of time, help troubleshoot data errors, make it easier to repeat your steps. You also won't have to repeat step one if something goes wrong in step two. An example

Re: [GRASS-user] installing addon problem for regular users (ubuntu newbies)

2009-10-24 Thread Alex Mandel
Were you using the default package in Ubuntu or the ones from Ubuntugis PPA? Alex Horacio Samaniego wrote: Dear Nathan, I discovered that the origin of the problem seem to be that the grass package in ubuntu is not compiled using 64bit libs and that to my understanding it's what's giving

Re: [GRASS-user] Using GRASS to ortho-rectify satellite imagery

2009-07-01 Thread Alex Mandel
Mike Willis wrote: Hi can anyone quickly tell me if it is possible to orthorectify satellite imagery using GRASS? Cheers! Mike Willis what about i.rectify - Rectifies an image by computing a coordinate transformation for each pixel in the image based on the control points. ?

Re: [GRASS-user] Java Web application with GRASS

2009-02-28 Thread Alex Mandel
Ken wrote: Hello all, I am evaluating grass. Can i use grass in a j2ee web application deployed to an application server. ie.. Can it be used similar to esri gis server that will hand you a url of the map to display in a jsp?? Thanks in advance ken Theoretically, maybe. GRASS is an

Re: [GRASS-user] binary 7.0 or 6.4 wingrass

2009-02-14 Thread Alex Mandel
Milton Cezar Ribeiro wrote: Dear all, I am looking for a binary version of 7.0 or 6.4 wingrass. As I can´t find it on the official site, I ask if someone could share a zip with the Wingrass files structure. Unfortunately I don´t know how compile native grass under windows Xp. Thanks a

Re: [GRASS-user] binary 7.0 or 6.4 wingrass

2009-02-14 Thread Alex Mandel
and Linux (for 6.4). Case you have other suggestions, I will be happy. Cheers miltinho 2009/2/15 Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com Milton Cezar Ribeiro wrote: Dear all, I am looking for a binary version of 7.0 or 6.4 wingrass. As I can´t find it on the official site, I ask

Re: [GRASS-user] Site Location Modeling

2009-01-27 Thread Alex Mandel
If you're looking to do spatial statistics you should look at R. http://cran.r-project.org http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Spatial.html Alex Mustafa Umut Sarac wrote: Can you please tell me how GRASS and statistics science goes together. Is it possible program GRASS for that purpose or

[GRASS-user] AGU 2008 - logging

2008-12-16 Thread Alex Mandel
For those of you at the AGU 2008 conference right now, please consider contributing some notes about the conference to help us plan for next year. We're interested in the details of Open Source talks, Sessions(I know there's one), socials and other general info about the conference and your

Re: [GRASS-user] r.to.vect and then v.clean using tool=rmarea creates polygons instead of holes.

2008-12-11 Thread Alex Mandel
Moskovitz, Bob wrote: Hello Grass-Users, I'm having problems with this sequence of commands: r.to.vect -s input=lszone output=lszone10 feature=area v.clean input=lszone10 output=lszone10_clean tool=rmarea thresh=2800 Below is the output. Overlaying lszone and lszone10_clean,

Re: [GRASS-user] Spatial joining in GRASS?

2008-12-07 Thread Alex Mandel
Jonathan Greenberg wrote: I was hoping for a crash course in performing a spatial join between a polygon and a point layer in GRASS. I want to know, for each polygon in vector A, how many points from vector B fall within it, and the average, min, max and stdev of several numeric fields of

Re: [GRASS-user] grass topography and postgis

2008-12-02 Thread Alex Mandel
The simple answer is that Postgis and Shapefiles etc store data per record, all the information for a polygon is stored in a geometry which defines it's points and if several points then a line or a polygon. This system allows for overlap and duplication as each object is independent. GRASS, Arc

Re: [GRASS-user] grass topography and postgis

2008-12-01 Thread Alex Mandel
Matt B wrote: Hi Group, I'd like to set up grass to edit / work with data in a postgis database. So far I've figured out (and been informed, thanks Richard) that grass stores the topologoly data in it's own database and the external database is just used for attributes. Is there a way to have

Re: Failure on Re: [GRASS-user] Help: Converting a raster map between locations (from wgs84 lat / long to UTM)

2008-10-30 Thread Alex Mandel
Even though the projection is not defined, the data still has some information it is WGS84 which has a datum/coordinate system so you do need to define it, the EPSG code is 4326. You can't reproject something from nothing, it needs at least a coordinate system, otherwise it doesn't know what

[GRASS-user] Call for Papers - AAG 2009

2008-10-27 Thread Alex Mandel
will be running an exhibit booth and is soliciting for more volunteers and sponsorship. For more information: AAG Conference http://aag.org/annualmeetings/2009/index.htm OSGeo http://www.osgeo.org Thank you, Alex Mandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geography Graduate Group http://ggg.ucdavis.edu Information

Re: [GRASS-user] for looping using attribute levels of a vector

2008-10-11 Thread Alex Mandel
Milton Cezar Ribeiro wrote: Dear R-gurus, I have a vector file which have several attributes. One of the columns have values that repeat like the name of city. So, I would like to do some steps for each level of the column of interest. Just supose that I have CityA, CityB, CityC I

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

2008-09-10 Thread Alex Mandel
Silvia Simoni wrote: Hi grass users, i'm trying to export a grass vector and generate a shapefile using v.out.ogr. the vector contains 4 points and 6 boundaries each has its own centroids. the output shapefile contains 4 objects out of 10. WHY? How can I get all the objects? (i created

Re: [GRASS-user] GRASS temp directory...

2008-08-20 Thread Alex Mandel
Jonathan Greenberg wrote: I'm curious -- where does GRASS write its temporary files, and how would I change this if I wanted to? Thanks! --j What OS are you on? It looks to me like it uses temp/grass6-user-pid so on my linux box it's under /tmp/grass6-... So you can edit to change the

Re: [GRASS-user] Snap a point to a line?

2008-08-13 Thread Alex Mandel
if this is a bug. Alex Mandel Geography Graduate Group http://ggg.ucdavis.edu Information Center for the Environment (ICE) http://ice.ucdavis.edu University of California, Davis ___ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org

Re: [GRASS-user] Trying to rename a column

2008-08-13 Thread Alex Mandel
was under this impression that it was the default for 6.3 Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex, dbf; just the default for a generic vector file. I should have added more detail, such as that I am using GRASS 6.3 on Linux. Thanks, Tom - Original Message - From: Alex Mandel [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [GRASS-user] shortest distance within a points layer

2008-08-11 Thread Alex Mandel
G. Allegri wrote: Hi list. I need to evaluate the shortest distance between the points of the same layer . v.distance fails as to_map and from_map overlap (every shortest distance is obviously 0: from point to itself). I was considering the use of network analysis tools... but I don't see a

Re: [GRASS-user] Making and Uploading Maps for Garmin Etrex Legend GPS

2008-08-07 Thread Alex Mandel
I see some room for confusion here. I think on Garmins the basemaps built-in maps are not vector format but raster format .img files. So the short answer is you can't dump them on the way you're trying to, you need to convert them. You'll need to look for a tool like this