[GRASS-user] How to find all vectors that overlay a given region

[Patton, Eric]

> Michael Barton wrote:

>> beware the case where the bounding boxes overlap but the vector features
>> within
>> do not. 

>Good point. I don't know how to account for that since vectors are not a
>continuous field.

>Michael

Using v.select on the list of candidate maps whose regions superficially overlap and then v.info -t on the output will tell you if you have any vector geometry in the region. 

~ Eric.