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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT COLOR="#1F497D" FACE="Calibri">Hi</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> folks,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I’m new to GRASS and trying to convert from raster to vector using GRASS 6.3 under VISTA without any success.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The raster I’m trying to convert was originally an ESRI arc ascii that I imported into grass.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">It displays okay and has these characteristics</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> | Layer: pgtsa_lu@PERMANENT Date: Tue Oct 13 10:44:07 2009 |</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> | Mapset: PERMANENT Login of Creator: bbsnowdo |</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> | Location: My_Location |</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> | DataBase: E:/GIS DataBase |</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> | Title: ( pgtsa_lu ) |</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> | Timestamp: none |</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> |----------------------------------------------------------------------------|</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> | |</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> | Type of Map: raster Number of Categories: 99 |</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> | Data Type: CELL |</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> | Rows: 4900 |</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> | Columns: 5628 |</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> | Total Cells: 27577200 |</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> | Projection: Albers Equal Area |</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> | N: 1368637.5 S: 878637.5 Res: 100 |</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> | E: 1393837.5 W: 831037.5 Res: 100 |</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> | Range of data: min = 1 max = 99 |</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> | |</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> | Data Description: |</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> | generated by r.in.arc |</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> | |</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> | Comments: |</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> | r.in.arc input="E:/FAIB/SELES_work/DATABASE/newLocation/PERMANENT/ce\ |</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> | ll/lu.asc" output="pgtsa_lu" type="CELL" mult=1.0 |</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> | |</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">But when I run r.to.vect Iget the following message.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">r.to.vect input=pgtsa_lu output=lu_poly feature=area --overwrite --verbose</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Vector map <lu_poly> already exists and will be overwritten</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Extracting areas...</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Building topology ...</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Registering lines: </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">0 primitives registered </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Building areas: </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">0 areas built </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">0 isles built</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Attaching islands: </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Attaching centroids: Topology was built.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Number of nodes : 0</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Number of primitives: 0</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Number of points : 0</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Number of lines : 0</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Number of boundaries: 0</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Number of centroids : 0</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Number of areas : 0</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Number of isles : 0</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">r.to.vect complete. </FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Any help anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><I></I></SPAN><I><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Barry Snowdon, RPF</FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><I></I></SPAN><I><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Forest Analysis and Inventory Branch</FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P DIR=LTR><I><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">British Columbia Ministry of Forests and Range</FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P DIR=LTR><I><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Email: Barry.Snowdon@gov.bc.ca</FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P DIR=LTR><I><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Tel: 250-387-3266</FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P DIR=LTR><I><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Fax: 250-953-3838 </FONT></SPAN></I></P>
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