[GRASSLIST:3083] Re: Clipping vectors in GRASS53

[Hamish]

> I have a huge vector file (UTM/NAD83) covering several GRASS locations
> I had defined (UTM/NAD27). I'd like to clip the vector to the region
> coordinates of each location (like the m.in.e00 command used to, a
> while ago). What would be the way to go ?


In GRASS 5.7, you can use 'v.in.ogr spatial=xmin,ymin,xmax,ymax'
(recently fixed) while importing or v.in.region & v.overlay together 
(or 'v.select op=overlap' ??).

For huge vector files, 5.7 should be quicker & more robust than the
tools in earlier versions.


Hamish