[GRASS5] Deprecate d.area and d.vect.line ??

[Eric G. Miller]

On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:47:43 +0100, Markus Neteler <neteler at itc.it> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 07:57:28AM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:09:36 +0100, Markus Neteler <neteler at itc.it> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 05:59:34PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> > > > I would like to deprecate d.area (and possibly d.vect.cats ?) in favor of
> > > > d.vect.area.  Also, there's the matter of v.area. Do people use it? 
> > > > What does it provide that d.what.vect doesn't do (besides the flood
> > > > fill, which doesn't handle islands)?
> > > 
> > > Yes, please go ahead... But: the d.vect.cats is the upcoming
> > > d.vect. Before you delete I will migrate d.vect.cats to d.vect :-)
> > > Any objections?
> > 
> > Oh, okay.
> 
> So.. done. d.vect.cats is now d.vect.

Markus, do you realize d.vect.cats does not handle islands/holes correctly?

Compare: http://pweb.jps.net/~egm2/d.vect.cats.jpg vs.
http://pweb.jps.net/~egm2/d.vect.area.jpg -- note: I drew the line work
a second time for d.vect (because the interiors got clobbered).

It should be relatively easy to remedy via G_plot_area().

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2 at jps.net>