[GRASS-user] split 'multi-polygons' in grass, how to?

[Martin Koch]

Op 28 aug. 2013, om 14:41 heeft Moritz Lennert <mlennert op club.worldonline.be>
 het volgende geschreven:

> On 12/08/13 13:29, Martin Koch wrote:
>> 
>> In the resulting map not all centroids have identical cats.
> 
> I imagine this is supposed to say: "not all centroids have unique cats" ?
> 

Stand corrected….

>> For the next step in my process, I need all centroids to have unique
>> cats, with their own attributes-record in the database. I have to
>> 'split' the 'multi polygons' (in geometry-terms) so to say.
> 
> You try with v.category layer=2 op=add to create new unique cat values for you centroids in layer 2, v.db.addtable to create and attribute table for layer 2 and then v.to.db [...] layer=2 op=query qlayer=1 qcolumn=cat to get the original cat values into the new attribute table.
> 

Thanks Moritz … will implement this elegant solution in the next version of my control script. I rarely need more than one layer in my maps, so using that possibility did not come to my mind when I needed it. I now do basically the same with some temporary tables in between.

>> p.s. Some years ago, doing something similar, I did not have this
>> problem…….
> 
> Could you give the exact commands and version of GRASS you use ?
> 

I have to apologize on this. I was a bit over reacting. Only remembered that at a certain stage in my old process I had unique cat's. Looking closer at the years old script in my repo reveals I send those maps to and from PostGIS for some other reason. Thus magically reappearing with unique cat's.

Kind regards,

Martin