[GRASSLIST:5776] m.in.e00, missing areas

[Ezra Glenn]

I have been using m.in.e00 to import some .e00 land use layers provided 
by my state's GIS office -- for example, the land use layer for the town 
of Carlisle, which can be found at http://www.state.ma.us/mgis/ftplus.htm.

The import does not result in any stated errors, but I notice there are 
a number of areas where d.what.vect returns "nothing found".  Also, some 
clicks for d.what.vect result in "Segmentation fault".  When I run 
v.to.rast, these areas all come in as NULL.

I have viewed the data in ArcView and there the coverage is complete -- 
there are no unattributed areas.  The ones that get left out seem to be 
the larger background areas (the "sea" polygons around other "island" 
polygons).  Also, I noted that the ID#s for these polygons all start at 
2, not 1 (although this is true in both Grass and ArcView).

I always choose the "automatically run v.support" option under m.in,e00, 
  which tells me that there are 24 "unattached atts".  Does that mean 
that these areas are not closed?  If so, is there a simple way to clean 
up this problem?  I think the attributes are all there under dig_cat/.

I am running Grass5 under Linux on a Dell computer with a pentium 4, if 
that helps at all.
-- 
Ezra Glenn, AICP
Land Use & Environmental Planner
McGregor & Associates, P.C.
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Boston, MA 02111
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email: eglenn at mcgregorlaw.com
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