[GRASS-dev] v.generalize no longer corrupts areas and area attributes

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Markus Metz
<markus.metz.giswork at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Area and area attribute handling of v.generalize is now fixed in r44899.
>
> Vector topology for areas is always maintained: if boundary
> modification would result in corrupt topology, the original boundary
> is preserved. The method to check for corrupted topology is taken from
> v.clean tool=prune. Additionally, area attributes are also preserved
> and no longer mixed up.
...

This is great news - thanks for your efforts.

> I would like to see these changes (after some testing) in 6.x because
> v.generalize in its current form in 6.x is IMHO unusable for
> boundaries.

Yes! Testers are welcome,

Markus