[GRASS-user] Clipping shapefiles

[Craig Leat]

Hi Matthew

Matthew Huck wrote:
> Well after about  27 hours on an imac it work ed, the command for
> v.overlay was
> v.overlay ainput=S28 atype=line  binput=cutter output=S28_Clipped
> operator=and
>
> Unfortunatly I have about few hundred to do!  If I can't make it any
> faster, might have to look at using the amazon compute cloud to do
> this in a reasonable time! Don't really want to do that though!

Did you experiment with an intermediate step using v.select, as
suggested by Hamish?

Craig