[GRASS-user] buffer on granular polygon... it fails

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 18:45 -0700, Hamish wrote:
[...]
> v.buffer has some problems,
>   http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/90
> 
> It's not a perfect solution but maybe try v.to.rast + r.buffer +
> r.to.vect ?
> 
> 
> Hamish

In general I try to avoid rasterising of vectors, do something and then
vectorise back. It's off topic but I have a question: what's the deal
concerning loss off information/ distortion etc. ? On which factors it
depends most? Resolution?

Sorry for this interruption and thank you in advance,

Nikos