Tyler,

Well, that's simply brilliant. I knew it should be easy. Plus, when I tested it I found out my rasters weren't truly mutually exclusive after all, as some cells = 3. This is apparently an artifact of v.to.rast polygon boundary issues but it's a pretty small problem.

Nonetheless, I have begun work on the r.update function I mentioned in my last post. It has general utility (e.g. fixing the non-exclusive problems I just mentioned) and seems easy enough as a crude hack. If it shows general utility I'll post it and see if someone with GRASS coding skills wants to take it up in C with the API.

Thanks Tyler!

On 01/01/2014 09:56 AM, Tyler Smith wrote:
Dave Roberts <dvr...@ecology.msu.montana.edu> wrote:

    Colleagues,

    I know this must be easy, but I haven't found it.

    Suppose I have three grids (a, b, and c) where each grid is 0 or 1,
    and the 1s are mutually exclusive.  I want a new grid where if grid
    a=1 then newgrid = 1; if grid b=1 then new grid = 2; if grid c=1 then
    newgrid = 3.

    Something like  r.mapcalc "new=if(a,1) || if(b,2) || if(c,3)"

    seems like it ought to work but I can't seem to use multiple input file
    that way.

    Thanks in advance for any help, Dave


What about

r.mapcalc new=a + b*2 + c*3

If the maps are mutually exclusive, only one of the three will be
non-zero for each cell.

Tyler

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