[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2964: G7: v.extract does not remove islands

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#2964: G7: v.extract does not remove islands
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  Reporter:  sbl          |      Owner:  grass-dev@…
      Type:  defect       |     Status:  new
  Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  7.0.4
 Component:  Vector       |    Version:  7.0.3
Resolution:               |   Keywords:  v.extract,islands
       CPU:  Unspecified  |   Platform:  All
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Comment (by mmetz):

 Replying to [ticket:2964 sbl]:
 > v.extract in GRASS 7.0.3 (and trunk too I guess) does not remove islands
 from areas.

 This is correct behaviour of v.extract. In GRASS, an area is composed of
 boundaries of the outer ring and boundaries of the enclosed islands, and a
 centroid. If you extract a given area with v.extract, you get its
 boundaries of the outer ring, boundaries of any enclosed islands, and its
 centroid. This is identical to non-topological vectors like shapefiles: a
 polygon is defined by its outer ring and any inner rings (islands).
 Extracting a single polygon will preserve the inner rings but not the
 polygons inside the inner rings.
 >
 > {{{
 > # From the Manual
 > v.extract input=map_with_islands output=maps_without_islands
 cats=1-99999
 > # and/or
 > v.extract -d in=map_with_islands out=maps_without_islands
 > }}}

 The manual is misleading because it does not specify the type to be
 extracted (should be area) and because it does not specify the layer to be
 extracted (presumably 1). The manual is wrong because the given commands
 do not remove islands. They are not supposed to remove islands, or inner
 rings in Simple Feature Specification.

 Manuals of relbr70 and trunk have been updated in r68070,1.

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