[GRASS-user] creating new geometry from pre-existing lines andpoints

[Patton, Eric]

On Jan 31, 2008 12:51 AM, Nikos Alexandris
<nikos.alexandris at felis.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 23:52 +0200, David Epstein wrote:
>> > ... (is there a technical difference between island, hole, and missing polygon?).
>>
>> Would be nice to have a kind of GRASS-GIS lexicon with (basic and
>> non-basic) definitions!

Is there a universal definition of a vector island? Or is an island solely 
dependent on the context in which it is found?  

>Documentation contributions are MOST welcome.

+1 

~ Eric.