Fwd: [GRASS-user] Page 37 "Open Source GIS" by Neteler & Mitasova

2008-01-31 Thread Matt
From: Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jan 28, 2008 8:59 PM Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Page 37 "Open Source GIS" by Neteler & Mitasova To: Markus Neteler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks for the quick reply. When I make the entries you suggest I get the following in an Application Error box: /usr/bin/x-te

[GRASS-user] Short Training Initiative 'Free and Open Source Software Tools for Geomatics', 18 to 29-august-2008, Leuven, Belgium

2008-01-31 Thread Nasa
Dear Members, I would like to announce the short training on Free and Open Source Geomatics tools for Land evaluation and Land use planning with emphasis on the Quantum-GIS and GRASS-software 18 to 29 August 2008 in Leuven, Belgium The short training is meant to help participants to: • Obta

RE: [GRASS-user] r.mapcalc map arithmetic and raster data types

2008-01-31 Thread Patton, Eric
You can always "downgrade" a DCELL map,but using any other type >could result in a loss of precision which cannot subsequently be undone. Ok, good; that's what I did (DCELL --> FCELL). >> the resulting raster map was an INT map whose cell values were >> all exactly zero. Why is this so? Is this

RE: [GRASS-user] creating new geometry from pre-existing lines andpoints

2008-01-31 Thread Patton, Eric
On Jan 31, 2008 12:51 AM, Nikos Alexandris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 23:52 +0200, David Epstein wrote: >> > ... (is there a technical difference between island, hole, and missing >> > polygon?). >> >> Would be nice to have a kind of GRASS-GIS lexicon with (basic and >> no

Re: [GRASS-user] creating new geometry from pre-existing lines and points

2008-01-31 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 30/01/08 18:32, David Epstein wrote: Also (and this relates to a previous question of mine) if I have imported a postGIS vector layer via v.in.ogr, does that create a permanent link so that edits via v.digit are then written back to the SQL database? Or do I need to somehow tell it to update

Re: [GRASS-user] What's wrong with this r.mapcalc usage?

2008-01-31 Thread Tom Russo
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 09:11:39AM +, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > Tom Russo wrote: > > > The other day I tried to perform an operation with r.mapcalc that didn't > > work the way I expected. > > [...] > > > > if(!isnull(SAO),

Re: [GRASS-user] Building wxgrass vdigit

2008-01-31 Thread Markus Neteler
On Jan 31, 2008 1:00 PM, Craig Leat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Don't worry about providing me with further advice on this particular > problem (other advice always appreciated :-) ); wxgrass is an interest > not a requirement. I need to be able to build vdigit along with the rest > of GRASS,

Re: [GRASS-user] Building wxgrass vdigit

2008-01-31 Thread Craig Leat
Glynn Clements wrote: Once you've built GRASS, build vdigit manually. The 6.3RC* Makefiles don't know that the vdigit directory is there, so they won't try to build it. Hi Glynn I understand the need to build vdigit on its own if using 6.3RC*, but my last few attempts have been with 6.3.SV

Re: [GRASS-user] creating new geometry from pre-existing lines and points

2008-01-31 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 09:00 +0200, Maris Nartiss wrote: > I'm sorry to interrupt Your advanced discussion, but if there are just > some "holes" that are required to be converted to polygons, then why > not use v.digit? Simply digitising new centroid inside a hole > (enclosed from other polygon bou

Re: [GRASS-user] get message warning: unable to open font map in i.points such file

2008-01-31 Thread Philipp Steigenberger
Glynn Clements schrieb: Philipp Steigenberger wrote: the GRASS cvs I didn't compile by myself. It was installed into the system. This days I couldn't run g.mkfontcap, cause I hadn't the permission. Now that I have the superuser rights I already compiled GRASS svn - without makeinstall; I'l

[GRASS-user] no dbase file after shape import (Wingrass)

2008-01-31 Thread Niels Thevs
Does anybody have an idea how to overcome the problem that after importing a shape file (polygon shape) with v.in.ogr no dbf file was created ? The funny thing is that it still worked a few days ago. Regards Niels -- - Dr. Niels Thevs C

Re: [GRASS-user] creating new geometry from pre-existing lines and points

2008-01-31 Thread Markus Neteler
On Jan 31, 2008 12:51 AM, Nikos Alexandris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 23:52 +0200, David Epstein wrote: > > ... (is there a technical difference between island, hole, and missing > > polygon?). > > Would be nice to have a kind of GRASS-GIS lexicon with (basic and > non-basi

Re: [GRASS-user] What's wrong with this r.mapcalc usage?

2008-01-31 Thread Markus Neteler
On Jan 31, 2008 10:11 AM, Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > The behaviour of && and || is consistent with most other infix > operators operators, insofar as they return null if either argument is > null. > > In newer versions of r.mapcalc (I don't recall exactly which > versions), you

Re: [GRASS-user] get message warning: unable to open font map in i.points such file

2008-01-31 Thread Glynn Clements
Philipp Steigenberger wrote: > the GRASS cvs I didn't compile by myself. It was installed into the > system. This days I couldn't run g.mkfontcap, cause I hadn't the permission. > Now that I have the superuser rights I already compiled GRASS svn - > without makeinstall; > I'll try the g.mkfont

Re: [GRASS-user] get message warning: unable to open font map in i.points such file

2008-01-31 Thread Glynn Clements
Markus Neteler wrote: > > > WARNING: unable to open font map '/usr/lib/grass/fonts/.hmp': No such > > > file > > > > Sorry, meant to reply to this earlier. The usual solution for this is to > > run: > > g.mkfontcap -o > > to re-generate the font file. > > > > Did you compile GRASS yourself? Were

Re: [GRASS-user] What's wrong with this r.mapcalc usage?

2008-01-31 Thread Glynn Clements
Tom Russo wrote: > The other day I tried to perform an operation with r.mapcalc that didn't > work the way I expected. > > I have a map, SAO that is 1 in some places and null elsewhere. It represents > an area of interest. > > I have two other maps, call 'em A and B, that are elevation models