[GRASS-user] trouble with 'where' statement to select points for labels (in d.vect)

[Tim Holland]

That did it!  Thanks very much.
Tim



On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 7:08 PM, achim <ak7 at jupiter.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> maybe its the database syntax: try 'not cat=16'
>
> Achim
>
> Tim Holland schrieb:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to add labels to a map, where most of the labels get printed
> > beside the shape (in this case, it is a point vector), while one label
> > (point #16) gets printed above the shape to prevent label overlap.
> >
> > What I am doing is
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> >
> > d.mon start=PNG
> >
> > d.vect PointsVect type=point display=shape
> > d.vect PointsVect type=point display=attr attrcol="Name" yref=top
> xref=left
> > where='cat=16' #### (to add the label for point number 16)
> > d.vect PointsVect type=point display=attr attrcol="Name" yref=center
> > xref=left where='cat!=16' #### (to add the labels for all other points)
> >
> > d.mon stop=PNG
> >
> > For some reason, the 'cat=16' statement works fine, but 'cat!=16' does
> not.
> > For the latter, I get the following error messages:
> >
> > dbmi: Protocol error
> > dbmi: Invalid procedure 101
> >
> > When I look online through bash scripting tutorials, it says != is the
> > symbol for 'not equal'.  Am I wrong on that?  Is there something else
> wrong
> > with my syntax?
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> > Tim
>
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