[GRASS-user] A "list=" option for "v.overlay"?

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 05:58 +0100, Nikos Alexandris wrote:
> Wouldn't it make sense to have a "list=" option for "v.overlay"?
> 
> I need to extract samples from the CORINE land cover/use (vector) map in
> separate maps (one map per sample plot).
> 
> Currently the only feasible way I see is:
> (1) put v.extract in a "for" loop and extract the sample plots in
> separate maps.
> (2)  use v.overlay in a loop over all samples plot maps.
> 
> But this is not "nice" if let's say the sample plots are thousands.
> Thanks in advance, Nikos 

I guess I just hit a "to do" issue... :-) & :-(

222 v.overlay
223 ---------
224 Select only relevant features which will be written to the output if
225 'and,not,nor' operators are used. An inspiration is available in
226 v.select.

(Taken from
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/doc/vector/TODO)