2010/8/10, Nikos Alexandris <nikos.alexand...@felis.uni-freiburg.de>: > Hanlie Pretorius wrote: > >> I thought I created a clipped DEM by rasterising an irregular vector >> boundary and then using a mask to create the clipped DEM from a >> rectangular DEM. >> >> For example: >> ----- > > #first, check and set your region of interest > g.region vect=border -pa
Tried this with the same result, as Jarek points out in the second reply. So, I assume it's impossible to have a raster with an irregular boundary in GRASS? > >> # convert vector border to raster >> v.to.rast input="border" output="border" use="cat" type="area" layer=1 >> value=1 rows=4096 | >> >> # set the mask to the raster border >> r.mask border > >> # create the clipped DEM >> r.mapcalc >> >> >dem_clipped=dem_full >> >> # remove the mask >> r.mask -r >> ----- >> >> But it turns out I was wrong, the 'clipped' raster just contains NULL >> values outside of the border raster. What did I do wrong? Is there a >> better way to clip a raster to a vector boundary? > > So, always check the region ;-). I think this is the best (and only?) way to > clip. > > Regards, Nikos > _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user