[GRASSLIST:6548] Re: problem importing vector

[Brian Beckage]

At 4:16 PM +0200 4/19/05, Radim Blazek wrote:
>
>The import of areas can be slow if some features cover big part of 
>the map as it this case probably the costline. The reason is that 
>v.in.ogr will try to intersect the costline with other features in 
>bounding box, if the box is big, many features must be processed.
>
>Hamish posted more deatails about the patch.
>
>You can verify if this is the problem. If you have current CVS 
>version of GRASS, try:

I have a pre-compiled binary version of GRASS (6.0.0) for OSX, not 
the cvs version.

>
>v.in.ogr -c
>v.split
>v.clean tool=break

Is this sequence of commands equivalent to v.in.ogr?


>
>>Break boundaries:
>>Intersections: 297999 (line 89173)
>
>This is strange, there should be no intersections in costline + 
>islands. Am I wrong? Try to import with v.in.ogr -c and find where 
>the boundaries intersect.

Well, this layer actually contains all water/land boundaries 
including the coastline, islands, and inland water bodies such as 
canals, lakes, etc.

>
>Is the sea and area? If so, you must somehow exclude the shape with 
>sea (ogr2ogr -where)
>

Brian

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