[GRASS-user] Problem displaying a vector map

[Moritz Lennert]

On 17/07/08 17:38, ramaraju wrote:
> Hi list
> I have prepared a topographic contour map from SRTM image. It was 
> working all right for quite some time. Recently, I tried to display the 
> map and it is giving the following message.
> 
> PNG: GRASS_TRUECOLOR status: TRUE
> 
> PNG: collecting to file: 
> /home/rr/grassdata/trust_utm/trust/.tmp/rr-lah/10338.0.ppm,
> 
>      GRASS_WIDTH=642, GRASS_HEIGHT=455
> 
> coor files of vector 'topo_contour at trust' is larger than it should be 
> (14 bytes excess).
> 
> The bounding box of the map is outside the current region, nothing drawn.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> When I tried making ps file with ps.map it gives a similar message. Can 
> you say something about the possible problem and how to correct it? I am 
> not finding any problem while displaying other vector or raster maps. I 
> am using grass 6.3 on ubuntu 8.04 and also on windows. The problem is 
> same in both the operating systems. I prepared another contour map, but 
> that too is giving a similar message

Somehow your file got messed up (did you do any digitizing on it ?). Try 
running v.build.

Moritz