[GRASS-user] Missing v.generalize in Grass 6.23

[Martin Landa]

2009/4/15 Roger André <randre at gmail.com>:
> Got Version 6.4 working last night and started to experiment with
> v.generalize.  I'm using it on a group of polygons that represent the
> Hawaiian islands and noticed some interesting behavior.  In other systems, I
> would expect these features to be treated at "multipolygons", however in
> GRASS I see that I have the option of specifying point, line, boundary, or
> area.  I'm not exactly sure what the difference between boundary and area
> is, but it does seem to make a difference in the v.generalize output which
> of them I choose.  Can someone clarify for me how these geometry types
> affect the operation v.generalize?

http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/vectorintro.html

-> Vector model and topology

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