[GRASS-user] An error in GRASS-7 manual

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Andres Kuusk <andres at aai.ee> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Andres Kuusk <andres at aai.ee> wrote:
>>>
>>> There is a small error in the GRASS-7 HTML-manual v.what.rast,
>>> http://grass.fbk.eu/grass70/manuals/html70_user/v.what.rast.html
>>>
>>> The required parameter is vector=name,
>>>
>>> ERROR: Sorry, <map> is not a valid parameter
>>> ERROR: Required parameter <vector> not set


Perhaps you need to recompile the code if you did it yourself (clean with
"make distclean" first)...
I recompiled GRASS 7 from scratch, it works as stated in the manual:

GRASS 7.0.svn (nc_spm_08):~/grass70/lib/gis > v.random pnts n=100
Generating points...
 100%
Building topology for vector map <pnts at neteler>...
Registering primitives...
100 primitives registered
...
Number of points: 100
...

GRASS 7.0.svn (nc_spm_08):~/grass70/lib/gis > v.db.addtable pnts
column="heights double precision"
Reading features...
 100%
...

GRASS 7.0.svn (nc_spm_08):~/grass70/lib/gis > v.what.rast map=pnts
raster=elevation column=heights
Reading features from vector map...
 100%
Update vector attributes...
 100%
v.what.rast complete. 100 records updated.

GRASS 7.0.svn (nc_spm_08):~/grass70/lib/gis > v.db.select pnts
cat|heights
1|130.2686462402
2|124.2121124268
3|105.6689529419
4|120.3233795166
...

AH, I got it: you are using GRASS 6 while reading the GRASS 7 manual..
the parameter name
changed! So please read here instead for GRASS 6:

http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/v.what.rast.html

Hope this helps,
Markus