[GRASS-dev] About v.distance, v.what.vect (wrt "count points within...").

[Nikos Alexandris]

Markus M:

> Start from scratch:
> 
> I've put a new module in grass-addons, called v.vect.stats. It counts
> points in polygons, fairly fast, but, as the name implies, can do a
> bit more. Optionally, it calculates statistics for areas based on the
> attributes of all points falling into an area. Currently supported
> methods are sum, average, median, mode, min, min_cat, max, max_cat,
> range, stddev, variance, diversity. The meaning of min_cat and max_cat
> is the category value corresponding to the observed minimum/maximum
> value, e.g. the hospital with the largest number of beds and not the
> largest number of beds.
> 
> The module is meant as the companion to v.rast.stats, update area
> attributes from raster: v.vect.stats, update area attributes from
> vector
> 
> Have fun,
> 
> Markus M
> 
> PS: No entry on wiki because I am not sure what will happen with the
> module. If it's regarded nonsense, it will be removed again. OTOH, it
> might end up in trunk.

Crazy! I'll take my time then and try to report to both of you ASAP (=within 
the next days I guess).