[GRASS-user] polygons and centroids redux

Markus Metz markus.metz.giswork at googlemail.com
Fri Jun 11 10:43:45 EDT 2010


Dave Roberts wrote:
> Friends,
>
>     This is the second time in two days I have had to post an apology and
> retraction for hasty questions.  I apologize for testing everyone's
> patience.  Thanks Markus; I was composing this message when I saw your post.
>  I mistook a centroid of a polygon too small to plot at the current
> resolution as the centroid of the surrounding hollow area.  My mistake;
> sorry.

No sweat. Even though I am one of the maintainers of the vector
libraries, I wanted to be sure and looked up the actual behaviour in
the source code to make sure that a centroid is really only attached
to an area this centroid falls within.

Markus M


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