[GRASS-user] get ESRI polygon shape with v.out.ogr

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:54 PM, christian Brandt
<chrisbrandt74 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I would like to export a vectorized raster theme as a ESRI polygon shape
> from GRASS 6.3.
>
> After vectorization of the raster with r.to.vect I get a vector theme with
> categories. Within this GRASS-layer, it is also possible to fill areas.
>
> Hence I run v.out.ogr using the boundary and area option as well as the ESRI
> shape option. At the end of the process, GRASS tells me that no categories
> are written. Visualizing the result within another GIS-software, there is
> just a line theme and thus no way to display filled areas.

v.out.ogr .map dsn=map.shp type=area

I guess it fails if you also specify boundary which is wrong.

> Any suggestions (AS SOON AS POSSIBLE PLEASE)?

Hope I am in time :)

Markus