[GRASS-user] v.in.ogr: shape files import trouble

[Hamish]

Raffaele Morelli wrote:
> 
> I am facing with a shape files import problem.
> 
> I got a shape file, polygons in it got areas, but when I push them
> into grass using v.in.ogr several polygons lost their area and the
> only thing I get it's a centroid, no boundary, no lines but simply a
> centroid.
> 
> QGis currently shows this shape correctly, so every polygon got his
> areas.
> 
> Same problem, if any and not my fault, occurs with grass6.2cvs and
> grass6.3cvs, debian testing OS.


how does it look if you skip cleaning the data?

topology is not guaranteed then, but if the data is only for looking at
it might be ok.

v.in.ogr -c



Hamish