[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS-user] a suggestion for v.transform

Dylan Beaudette dylan.beaudette at gmail.com
Thu Jun 14 17:07:54 EDT 2007


On Thursday 14 June 2007 12:15, Glynn Clements wrote:
> Michael Barton wrote:
> > There has been a thread about how v.transform functions and Glynn pointed
> > out that part of the problem is that the short description does not
> > really describe what it does, at least from a GIS perspective:
> >
> > " Transforms a vector map layer from one coordinate system into another
> > coordinate system."
> >
> > I'm working on wxgrass menus at the moment and trying to come up with
> > useful menu entries. A better short description for v.transform might be:
> >
> > "Reposition (shift and rotate) vector file in coordinate space"
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> It can also scale.

... and to be complete, it can also shear.


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Dylan Beaudette
Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
University of California at Davis
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