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GRASS: populating attribute table with specific values

I have a vector map that includes 100 points. These points were created using v.extract to randomly sample a larger map of 10k points. As such, the 'cat' values range from 1 to more than 10k. What ...
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GRASS: shift point locations in a random direction

I have a vector map that contains 100 points. For each point, I would like to shift it 250 units in a random location. It's easy enough to shift all points in a specified direction using v.edit ...
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How do I find vector line bearing in QGIS or GRASS?

How can one extract the bearings from a set of lines in a vector file? I'm trying to find the bearings of several straight vector line segments (simplified contour lines, actually) and can't figure ...
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How to invert polygons (or other options for exterior styling)?

I have a shapefile containing many polygons that I want to use to mask a raster. I have tried gdalwarp -cutline <shapefile> -crop_to_cutline -srcnodata -9999 -dstnodata -9999 ...
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Set certain amount of pixels to 1 inside of a polygon (GRASS)

I have a rather coarse vector map with polygons and want to calculate a (sufficiently) finer raster map defined by spatial extension and resolution. Every polygon of the vector map has a value ...
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Error when importing vector layer into GRASS

I am trying to import a vector layer into GRASS, but I keep receiving the same error. The values in the vector layer are important because I would like to use them to create a heatmap. What could I ...
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How to correctly merge layers with overlapping polygons in QGIS/GRASS?

I have 4 vector shapefile that I would like to join/merge, without worrying about attributes. Here are the shapefiles. I would like to do an union and a spatial dissolve, but everytime I do a dissolve ...
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How to close and fill Gulfs and inlets in QGIS or Grass?

I have a raster layer from which I extracted only zones with a certain color, then polygonized it with QGis. I just generalized the new vector layer in GRASS to smooth things a bit. There are many ...
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How to apply v.transform on a set of vector layers (GRASS 6.4)?

I have 64 vector layers, all of them must be warped using the v.transform module; the pointsfile is the same for all vectors. How can I apply the transformation recursively to all layers? I'm not ...
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How to extend lines in Grass

I have a set of vector lines in grass which I need to convert into polygons. However, because of bad base data, the polygons don't always close. To fix this, I need to extend each disjointed line by ...
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SEXTANTE toolbox - GRASS error

I am trying to use the SEXTANTE module GRASS (and SAGA) for vector analysis but whatever function I use I always get the same error:"Could not load layer: G:/closest.shp Check the SEXTANTE log to look ...
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How to join polygons and lines vector maps from openstreetmap?

I am struggling with the data format OSM gives me: I want to use OSM data for routing, but all round-abouts and parking lots are not in the lines layer. They are situated in the poly(lines) layer. ...
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Merge two maps with OR operation in GRASS

I have two vector maps. The two maps cover the same area but are split up into polygons differently (i.e. if you were to imagine one map placed above the other, the lines defining the polygons would ...
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v.dissolve renames the attribute table column and does not produce a dbf

When I run v.dissolve on my vector... v.dissolve --o input=pass2@mapset1 layer=1 column=fttcp output=pass3 The dissolving appears to work but the column name in the attribute table has changed from ...
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Vectorize cell boundaries in GRASS

I need to vectorize the cell boundaries of a raster map and I have forgotten how to do this. For instance, if I have a raster map of a region that is just map=1 with a cell size of 500m, I would ...
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How to set cell size for vector to raster conversion in QGIS GRASS plugin?

I'm converting a vector (loaded in GRASS plugin in QGIS (1.7.0.-wroclaw) and would like to convert this to a raster with a defined cell size. At the same time I need a value from the attribute tabel ...
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How to combine polygons in a vector with GRASS?

I need to combine polygons of similar geological classes which are stored in a vector file called geology. I was looking for somethiing like "union selected features" or similar. In the GRASS Book ...
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How to convert a vector boundary to a raster map?

I need to output a PNG file of a raster map overlayed with boundaries present in a vector map. The problem is, the r.out.png script only exports a raster map. My boundaries are in a vector format. ...
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How to create a point along a line given distance

I have been given a non-spatial database which contains the names of lines which I have a shapefile for. The database also has names of points and the distance of each point from the origin along the ...
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How to clean vector segment intersect errors in GRASS

I'm using GRASS to process a vector map. When I export back to .SHP and do a 'Check Geometry Validity' in Quantum GIS it lists several errors of this type... 3,segments 199 and 203 of line 0 ...
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Is there a shortcut in GRASS for importing vector files?

Is there a keyboard or command shortcut in GRASS for importing vector files? If you know link where I can find maybe whole list of shortcuts for GRASS, that would be awesome. Thank you.
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How do I draw on a vector map in GRASS?

I have a vector map that has two lines. I want to have the two connected. Is there a way for me to draw a line to connect the two? I am using GRASS gis by the way. The two lines that I want to connect ...
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How to save a raster and vector into a single PNG file in GRASS?

I am trying to save a raster and vector into a PNG file. The vector is overlayed on top of the raster map. I was only able to save the raster file into a png using r.out.png but without the vector.
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How to extract features from a vector layer?

I have a vector file containing the river lines of an area. I want to extract a specific water line from the vector. I used: v.db.select but it only displayed: ...
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How to create a new table for a vector file?

I will use v.db.connect but i want to use a new table, and not an existing table to connect it to. What is the GRASS script for it? Thanks!
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How to select an area in a raster map that is compared with another raster map? (intersection of two raster maps) [closed]

I have raster map A=elevation values and raster map B=raster with colors (each color represents a polygon boundary. raster map B is created with the use of v.to.rast) I want to select the part of ...
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Why is the geonames not loading?

I want to import a geonames file. I downloaded the geonames .txt file from http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/ I used: v.in.geonames input=PH.txt output=ph but it displayed ...
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How to select a raster file that is under a polygon in a vector file?

I am using: v.db.select map=PHL_adm1 where=NAME_1='Bulacan' My vector map is over the raster map. I want to select the part of the raster map under the polygon(NAME_1='Bulacan') of a vector. Is it ...
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How to combine a vector and a raster file?

I want to combine a raster and a vector file. After combining, can I query on the resulting map to obtain a specific area? How?
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How to know contents of column names in GRASS?

I am using GRASS to extract a specific area from a vector map. Here is the script that I am running: v.extract PHL_map out=makati where="AREA_NAME = 'Makati" The problem is, I don't know what are ...
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How to query data from a vector map (shapefile)?

We want to obtain the specific place of the boundaries of a shapefile. We want to be able to get the points of each polygon corresponding to a specific place in order to use these data in an ...
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Rubber sheeting in GRASS or QGIS

We are in the process of getting our property boundaries corrected and a side effect of this is that we need to move any assets that have been drawn relative to the property boundaries, so they are ...