[GRASS-user] v.generalize issue

[Markus Metz]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Roger André <randre at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello GRASS Community,
> I'm having a problem that I'm hoping you can help me find the source of.
> I think that either A) I am trying to use the v.generalize tool incorrectly,
> B) that my data has some sort of topological problem which I'm unaware of,
> or C) that there is a bug in v.generalize.  The simplest way to describe
> what's happening is that I am consistently unable to generalize a large
> group of contiguous polygons (African states most recently) without losing a
> large number of polygons from my data.  I have tried a variety of different
> things, all without success, and now I'd like to ask if someone would be
> willing to verify that what I'm seeing isn't a problem of my own creation.
>  I've posted my data files at www.macrogis.net/africa, along with a
> before-and-after image of the specific problem I've encountered.  I'm using
> GRASS v 6.4.1 which I downloaded from the main website 2 months ago.

This bug has been fixed in GRASS 6.4.2

Markus M