On 18/05/16 16:37, Luca Delucchi wrote:
Hi devs,
I'm working on a QGIS plugin to check the differences between an input
shapefile and the resulting GRASS vector. I have some doubts:
- a line with only a point is a valid line? I was thinking it should
not be valid but GRASS doesn't return any error
No error at what operation ?
I can import with v.in.ogr, just as I can open it with QGIS.
But, yes, GRASS does import a one-point line. You can confirm this with
echo "L 1 1
100.0 0.0
1 1" | v.in.ascii in=- out=line format=standard -n
Whether this is good or bad is open to discussion.
The programmer's manual states:
line: a directed sequence of connected vertices with two endpoints
called nodes (2D or 3D) - GV_LINE
But it doesn't say that the two nodes can't be identical. AFAIU, the
vector format is essentially points stored in the coor file with
additional information about what type of feature each point belongs to.
GRASS doesn't really care about how many points are there.
You can even import a boundary with only one point. You will get a
warning at topology build time that the boundary is incorrect, but this
is only a warning, not an error...
- is it correct that attributes for multipolygon or polygon with self
intersection (so GRASS creates two different areas) are not imported?
No. Importing your two files with v.in.ogr I get two polygons, both with
the same category value and this points to an attribute table that
contains the attribute.
Moritz
_______________________________________________
grass-dev mailing list
grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
