[GRASS-user] Using v.external - still buggy?

[Moritz Lennert]

Stephan Holl wrote:
> Hello Wolfgang,
> 
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:05:23 +0200 wqual <wolfgang.qual at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hi list, 
>> I got a new version of GRASS 6.1CVS and tried again v.external
>> (background: I would like to graphically select some features within
>> QGIS, but I do not want to import the whole thing first. 
> 
> I am also not happy about this behaviour. But Radim once told me that
> this is not possible, that v.externaled layers can be displayed in QGIS.
> 
> I _really_ like to see this happen in the near future, but sadly I am
> not the one who can implement it...

If you don't need to analyse it in GRASS (in which case you are probably 
better off importing it anyway), why not just visualise it directly in 
QGIS without going through v.external ?

Moritz