[GRASS-dev] v.buffer doesn't respect region?

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Eric Momsen <eric.momsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was just using v.buffer yesterday, and found it was ignoring my region
> settings, it processed the entire map instead of a small area.
>
> I updated GRASS yesterday, and am compiled with GEOS.  Am I missing
> something else, should v.buffer respect the region?

To my knowledge no. As before, all vector modules work on full maps while
raster operations are done in the computational region (with a few exceptions).

To limit a vector area you need to clip it first (e.g., v.in.region +
v.overlay/v.select).

Markus