[GRASS-dev] change in vector area format?

[Hamish]

Michael wrote:
> Somewhere along the line, we could probably use a script that
> automatically runs v.build on all vectors in a mapset to build
> the file based spatial index.

it could be called "v.build.all".  ;-)
(we have been down this road before during grass 5.7 ...)

perhaps that script could get a new flag which besides running v.build
could optionally run a non-interactive dummy v.what session to build
the spatial index file as well. I guess a flag to build the index
without rebuilding topology could be useful too. at which point we
may as well make it a multichoice option:
  build=topology,spatial_index,both
with the default being just the topology
??

and should it rebuild the sp.index if already there? or just skip past
it? (ie option to just run it for vector maps that need it)


Hamish