Re: [GRASS-user] Survey descriptions to GRASS vector

2010-08-27 Thread Dwight Needels
On Aug 26, 2010, at 12:03 PM, Dwight Needels wrote: Dwight wrote: Is there a straightforward way to encode a survey description of a parcel in a text file that can then be imported into GRASS as a vector? The type of description I am talking about looks something like this (where the numbers

Re: [GRASS-user] Survey descriptions to GRASS vector

2010-08-26 Thread Dwight Needels
Dwight wrote: Is there a straightforward way to encode a survey description of a parcel in a text file that can then be imported into GRASS as a vector? The type of description I am talking about looks something like this (where the numbers are degrees/.minutes/seconds)... "Beginning at [a defin

Re: [GRASS-user] Survey descriptions to GRASS vector

2010-08-25 Thread Dwight Needels
On Aug 25, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Markus Neteler wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Dwight Needels > wrote: Is there a straightforward way to encode a survey description of a parcel in a text file that can then be imported into GRASS as a vector? The type of description I am talking ab

[GRASS-user] Survey descriptions to GRASS vector

2010-08-25 Thread Dwight Needels
Is there a straightforward way to encode a survey description of a parcel in a text file that can then be imported into GRASS as a vector? The type of description I am talking about looks something like this (where the numbers are degrees/.minutes/seconds)... "Beginning at [a defined point]

[GRASS-user] Projection parameters- what is significant?

2010-08-05 Thread Dwight Needels
Hi all, My standard location is a Lambert Conformal Conic (2SP) created using EPSG 2234. When I receive data from my city GIS system, it arrives (as a shape file) in a very similar but non-identical projection. I created a new location based on one of the data files, and re-project to and

[GRASS-user] How to export 3D vector elevations with v.out.gpsbabel

2010-03-08 Thread Dwight Needels
Hi all, The v.out.gpsbabel module is wonderful. I particularly like the way to automatically reprojects data into Lat/LonWGS84. I have been importing multiple GPS tracks (of hiking trails) into GRASS for "averaging", then using v.out.gpsbabel to export a .gpx track format for use on my GP

[GRASS-user] How to export 3D vector elevations with v.out.gpsbabel

2010-03-07 Thread Dwight Needels
I have been importing multiple GPS tracks (of hiking trails) into GRASS for "averaging", then using v.out.gpsbabel to export a .gpx track for use on my GPS. I used v.drape to pull elevations from a DEM into the vector, and had hoped that using v.out.gpsbabel to export the resulting 3D vecto

Re: [GRASS-user] Why does v.split convert 3D vector to 2D?

2010-03-07 Thread Dwight Needels
On Mar 7, 2010, at 2:10 PM, Markus Neteler wrote: On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Dwight Needels > wrote: I have a 3D vector [test_3D] created using v.drape, confirmed as 3D with v.info. I used v.split to split the polyline at the vertices: v.split input=test_3D output=test_3D_split verti

[GRASS-user] Why does v.split convert 3D vector to 2D?

2010-03-07 Thread Dwight Needels
I have a 3D vector [test_3D] created using v.drape, confirmed as 3D with v.info. I used v.split to split the polyline at the vertices: v.split input=test_3D output=test_3D_split vertices=2 The resulting vector [test_3D_split] is a 2D vector (i.e. it lost the z geometry data according to v.in

Re: [GRASS-user] Extracting non-overlapping lines

2009-07-24 Thread Dwight Needels
Hi all, Does anybody have a suggestion for subtracting the elements in one line vector from another line vector? -D On Jul 21, 2009, at 7:06 PM, Dwight Needels wrote: Hi all, I have two nearly identical line vectors, and I would like to extract the lines that differ between the two

[GRASS-user] Extracting non-overlapping lines

2009-07-21 Thread Dwight Needels
Hi all, I have two nearly identical line vectors, and I would like to extract the lines that differ between the two vectors into a third vector. Specifically, I want to isolate the connecting lines that were generated by v.net operation=connect. Something like: [map_C = map_A NOT map_

Re: [GRASS-user] Criteria for v.clean tool=rmdangle

2009-06-18 Thread Dwight Needels
On Jun 18, 2009, at 3:15 PM, Markus GRASS wrote: If the tool is run repeatedly, the final vector will have no dangles shorter than thresh. Not so sure if repeated runs are necessary. One run should be enough to have no dangles shorter than thresh in the output vector. My mistake. I had what

Re: [GRASS-user] Criteria for v.clean tool=rmdangle

2009-06-17 Thread Dwight Needels
On Jun 17, 2009, at 11:13 AM, Markus GRASS wrote: Maybe start with a lower threshold first, e.g. 5 ft to remove D and E first, then increase the threshold for any other, longer dangles you would like to remove This is exactly what I ended up doing, and it works great. The only question is ho

Re: [GRASS-user] Criteria for v.clean tool=rmdangle

2009-06-16 Thread Dwight Needels
On Jun 16, 2009, at 3:41 AM, Markus GRASS wrote: Dwight Needels wrote: When the rmdangle tool runs into a pair of dangles at the end of a line where each is shorter than threshold (a "Y"), it removes one but leaves the other. This makes sense, because after the first one is removed

Re: [GRASS-user] Criteria for v.clean tool=rmdangle

2009-06-15 Thread Dwight Needels
On Jun 15, 2009, at 2:25 AM, Markus GRASS wrote: Then there was nothing snapped? You can see what happened with v.clean --verbose. Just to make sure I understand you correctly, have a look at the attached image. I guess you want to remove the line segments indicated by the arrows? Then the two

Re: [GRASS-user] Criteria for v.clean tool=rmdangle

2009-06-14 Thread Dwight Needels
On Jun 14, 2009, at 3:00 AM, Markus GRASS wrote: Dwight Needels wrote: The rmdangle tool in v.clean usually behaves exactly the way I would expect it to, but occasionally it does not. I have a vector generated from a raster using r.thin and r.to.vect that has numerous dangles. In the attached

[GRASS-user] Criteria for v.clean tool=rmdangle

2009-06-13 Thread Dwight Needels
The rmdangle tool in v.clean usually behaves exactly the way I would expect it to, but occasionally it does not. I have a vector generated from a raster using r.thin and r.to.vect that has numerous dangles. In the attached screenshot there are what appear to be two dangles with lengths of ~

Re: [GRASS-user] r.thin quirk

2009-06-13 Thread Dwight Needels
On Jun 11, 2009, at 12:50 AM, Dwight Needels wrote: On Jun 11, 2009, at 12:01 AM, Dwight Needels wrote: On Jun 6, 2009, at 11:36 PM, Dwight Needels wrote: Hi all. I have run into a quirk using r.thin, but I am not sure whether or not it is a bug. I have a raster that was generated from

Re: [GRASS-user] r.thin quirk

2009-06-10 Thread Dwight Needels
On Jun 11, 2009, at 12:01 AM, Dwight Needels wrote: On Jun 6, 2009, at 11:36 PM, Dwight Needels wrote: Hi all. I have run into a quirk using r.thin, but I am not sure whether or not it is a bug. I have a raster that was generated from multiple GPS tracks using v.rast followed by r.buffer

Re: [GRASS-user] r.thin quirk

2009-06-10 Thread Dwight Needels
On Jun 6, 2009, at 11:36 PM, Dwight Needels wrote: Hi all. I have run into a quirk using r.thin, but I am not sure whether or not it is a bug. I have a raster that was generated from multiple GPS tracks using v.rast followed by r.buffer. Using r.thin followed by r.to.vect creates a vector

[GRASS-user] Averaging multiple vector lines

2009-06-03 Thread Dwight Needels
I have a GRASS vector that originated as multiple GPS tracks from walking a particular trail segment on several different days. Is there a good way to average these lines to get a single line? I want to minimize GPS accuracy errors by averaging across multiple days and also minimize precisi

Re: [GRASS-user] Forcing polyline nodes through a point

2009-06-03 Thread Dwight Needels
On May 28, 2009, at 10:04 PM, Dwight Needels wrote: I am trying to create a map of hiking trails based on GPS data. If anyone can point me to a tutorial that discusses the techniques and issues involved, I would appreciate it. Meanwhile, a couple of specific questions. I have a series of

Re: [GRASS-user] Deleting vertices based on a list of points

2009-06-03 Thread Dwight Needels
On Jun 3, 2009, at 4:50 AM, Moritz Lennert wrote: On 02/06/09 20:50, Dwight Needels wrote: Hi all, I have two vectors: Vector A has lines and Vector B has points that share the same coordinates as a subset of the vertices in the lines. I would like to delete all of the vertices/nodes in

[GRASS-user] Deleting vertices based on a list of points

2009-06-02 Thread Dwight Needels
Hi all, I have two vectors: Vector A has lines and Vector B has points that share the same coordinates as a subset of the vertices in the lines. I would like to delete all of the vertices/nodes in Vector A that lie directly underneath the points in Vector B (or perhaps lie within a thresh

Re: [GRASS-user] Reverse vector line direction

2009-05-31 Thread Dwight Needels
On May 31, 2009, at 7:34 PM, Hamish wrote: Dwight wrote: What is the easiest way to reverse the direction of either a specific line segment or all lines in a vector? have a look for a script to do that in the wiki addons site. or maybe v.edit can do it (and your node problem too), I'm not s

[GRASS-user] Reverse vector line direction

2009-05-31 Thread Dwight Needels
What is the easiest way to reverse the direction of either a specific line segment or all lines in a vector? Thanks, -Dwight ___ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user

Re: [GRASS-user] Forcing polyline nodes through a point

2009-05-30 Thread Dwight Needels
Hamish, Getting closer (I was wondering how to accomplish the extraction of nodes from a vector... thanks!). Unfortunately, this still leaves me with the problem of a short line segment attached to the end of the original line by a node rather than a vertex, which can put in a kink that r

Re: [GRASS-user] Forcing polyline nodes through a point

2009-05-29 Thread Dwight Needels
On May 29, 2009, at 4:50 AM, Hamish wrote: Dwight wrote: I am looking for a way to force the polylines (from GPS tracks) to terminate at the points (from averaged waypoints). One possibility would be to snap each terminal node to the nearest point (within a threshold), with the point coordinate

[GRASS-user] Forcing polyline nodes through a point

2009-05-28 Thread Dwight Needels
I am trying to create a map of hiking trails based on GPS data. If anyone can point me to a tutorial that discusses the techniques and issues involved, I would appreciate it. Meanwhile, a couple of specific questions. I have a series of GPS tracks that have been brought into GRASS as poly

Re: [GRASS-user] r.colors- transparent, HSB color

2009-03-19 Thread Dwight Needels
Glynn Clements wrote: For integer maps, you can create a reclass map using r.reclass. This has much lower overhead than creating a complete new map with r.mapcalc. That is exactly what I was looking for (thanks!). Glynn Clements wrote: Are you talking about simply specifying colours in HSB,

[GRASS-user] r.colors- transparent, HSB color

2009-03-18 Thread Dwight Needels
Hi, I have been using r.mapcalc to set various combinations of colors in a 13-color DRG to null to allow the map to be displayed as a series of overlays on top of other maps. It occurs to me that it would be useful to be able to accomplish this using r.colors by defining the color of spec

Re: [GRASS-user] dyld: Library not loaded

2008-07-18 Thread Dwight Needels
That took care of the problem. Thanks! on 7/18/08 8:43 PM, William Kyngesburye at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > New GRASS 6.3 build online. > > On Jul 17, 2008, at 10:17 PM, Dwight Needels wrote: > >>> Hmmm. I wonder if my gpsbabel binary is f'd for Tiger... A

Re: [GRASS-user] dyld: Library not loaded

2008-07-17 Thread Dwight Needels
on 7/17/08 11:02 PM, William Kyngesburye at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Jul 17, 2008, at 9:38 PM, Dwight Needels wrote: >> >> GRASS 6.3.0 (Meriden_GIS):~ > type gpsbabel >> gpsbabel is hashed (/Applications/GRASS-6.3.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/ >> gpsbabel) >>

Re: [GRASS-user] dyld: Library not loaded

2008-07-17 Thread Dwight Needels
on 7/17/08 10:23 PM, William Kyngesburye at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Jul 17, 2008, at 8:53 PM, Dwight Needels wrote: > >> I do not have a specific need for GPSBabel 1.3.5. I deleted the >> installer >> receipt for your GRASS version and reinstalled 6.3.0-1 [sam

Re: [GRASS-user] dyld: Library not loaded

2008-07-17 Thread Dwight Needels
thout an explicit path; it works fine when I use an explicit path to the gps.babel.org version or when I use a fresh (non-GRASS) Terminal session. > > On Jul 16, 2008, at 9:06 PM, Dwight Needels wrote: > >> on 7/11/08 12:03 PM, Dwight Needels at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wro

Re: [GRASS-user] dyld: Library not loaded

2008-07-16 Thread Dwight Needels
on 7/11/08 12:03 PM, Dwight Needels at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I get an error when I try to run v.in.gpsbabel... > > v.in.gpsbabel -t input=/Users/dwight/t_Westfield.gpx output=Westfield > format=gpx > > Loading Tracks from ... > dyld: Library not

[GRASS-user] dyld: Library not loaded

2008-07-11 Thread Dwight Needels
Hi all, I get an error when I try to run v.in.gpsbabel... v.in.gpsbabel -t input=/Users/dwight/t_Westfield.gpx output=Westfield format=gpx Loading Tracks from ... dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libexpat.1.dylib Referenced from: /Applications/GRASS-6.3.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/gpsbabel Reas

Re: [GRASS-user] Clip vector to current region

2008-07-06 Thread Dwight Needels
on 7/6/08 12:00 PM, "Markus Neteler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Dwight Needels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> What is the quickest way to clip a vector to the current region, while >> ending up w

[GRASS-user] Clip vector to current region

2008-07-05 Thread Dwight Needels
Hi all, What is the quickest way to clip a vector to the current region, while ending up with the attribute table retaining all original field names and data values? Thanks, -Dwight ___ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.o

[GRASS-user] Connect additional table based on layer 1 attribute column

2008-06-29 Thread Dwight Needels
Hi all, I have what I thought might be a use for multiple layers in GRASS, but I haven't been able to figure out how to test it (I am relatively new to GRASS). I am using William Kyngesburye¹s 6.3cvs on Mac OS 10.4.11 with a SQLite database backend. I have a parcels vector file (myParcels) with ~