Re: [GRASS-user] Filling an Area Added to Vector Map

2012-01-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Rich Shepard wrote: I discovered the problem: some layers obscure others. The problem is not that one layer covers another, but that one layer just will not display. I've no idea why not. There are 4 vector layers but only 3 will display. It seems that the last to be ad

Re: [GRASS-user] Filling an Area Added to Vector Map

2012-01-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Hamish wrote: (but in GRASS vector maps you happily keep all 3(+) types in a single map; for export to shapefile or other GIS formats you may have to pick just one) Hamish, That's what I thought. Anywho, I discovered the problem: some layers obscure others. I'm worki

Re: [GRASS-user] Filling an Area Added to Vector Map

2012-01-11 Thread Hamish
Alex wrote: > In the GIS vector world you have points, lines and > polygons. Typically (in most) applications a > single layer can only be 1 of the 3. (but in GRASS vector maps you happily keep all 3(+) types in a single map; for export to shapefile or other GIS formats you may have to pick just o

Re: [GRASS-user] Filling an Area Added to Vector Map

2012-01-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Alex Mandel wrote: What you digitized is the outline of an area as a line feature. To make a fillable polygon you can convert that or redigitize it in it's own polygon layer. I did not realize that I needed a new layer since the last time I digitized in GRASS was with ve

Re: [GRASS-user] Filling an Area Added to Vector Map

2012-01-11 Thread Alex Mandel
On 01/11/2012 11:59 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > I've not done this before and my trial-and-error approach doesn't work. I > need to add a reservoir to a stream system so I used the on-screen editing > feature to digitize the area, then rebuilt the topology. But, despite > having > a fill color sele

[GRASS-user] Filling an Area Added to Vector Map

2012-01-11 Thread Rich Shepard
I've not done this before and my trial-and-error approach doesn't work. I need to add a reservoir to a stream system so I used the on-screen editing feature to digitize the area, then rebuilt the topology. But, despite having a fill color selected the new area is not filled. I've attached a s