[GRASS-dev] d.where in gis.m ?

[Michael Barton]

I guess you should put this on the wish list, along with saving a region
directly from gism.

Michael
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> From: Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be>
> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:40:40 +0200
> To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> Cc: Grass Developers List <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] d.where in gis.m ?
> 
> Michael Barton wrote:
>> Moritz,
>> 
>> Display your vector, but select a raster layer in the gism layer tree. Then
>> you'll get a much simpler output (because rasters only have e,n,cat,label)
>> on a single line. Save the output window to a file and this might do what
>> you want.
> 
> 
> This is already a bit better, but besides the fact that it is a bit of a
> hassle to create a raster just to get nicer coordinate output, there is
> still quite a lot of clutter with the command lines:
> 
> r.what -f input=pop_poten east_north=151323.550767,160949.243195
> 
> 
> 151323.550767|160949.243195||36458.9120110746|
> 
> 
> r.what -f input=pop_poten east_north=151323.550767,160949.243195
> 
> 
> 151323.550767|160949.243195||36458.9120110746|
> 
> 
> I just think that it should'nt be too complicated to copy the
> information that already exists (as it is displayed on the bottom right
> of the screen) to the output window in a nice format. d.path does this,
> for example:
> 
> L: from  M: to R: quit
> Node 392: 147162.820000 168433.076000
> Node 6812: 152070.313000 168202.302000
> Node 2062: 148133.692000 167472.842000
> Node 6864: 150575.348000 169256.368000
> Node 1785: 153084.305000 168910.834000
> Node 7870: 148412.785000 165596.435000
> Node 204: 149007.947000 168352.584000
> Node 5011: 153025.424000 166352.285000
> Node 4364: 147451.703000 168614.870000
> Node 4773: 151505.647000 168907.431000
> 
> But d.path needs an X monitor...
> 
> I know the best answer would be to do it myself, but I am not a big
> expert in tcl/tk.
> 
> Moritz
> 
>