[GRASS-user] raster to vector conversion

[Glynn Clements]

Tom Miewald wrote:

> I am wondering if there is a way to convert raster to vector in GRASS
> without the smoothing.  I want to keep the "blocky" look of the raster
> boundaries to their original pixel extents.  I find too much detail is lost
> with the smoothing.  Are there any other open source methods to do this if
> 
> from the GRASS help: "To produce a better-looking vector map,
> *r.to.vect*smoothes the corners of the vector data as they are being
> extracted.

It only does this if you use the -s flag; otherwise, you get hard
corners.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>