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

[Hamish]

Roger André wrote:
> Am I correct then in assuming that I can treat all of my multipolygon
> data as type=boundary for the purposes of using
> v.generalize? 

beware that you may need to add category numbers to the boundaries to
have them considered for processing.

> The end goal is to buffer the geometry and
> then export it back out as a shapefile.

FWIW the act of buffering usually does a nice job of generalizing the
coastline, so perhaps not as much is needed there after all.


Hamish