[GRASS-user] v.what.rast sampling cells 5 km to east

[Markus Neteler]

Michael,

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Michael Spencer
<spencer.mike.r at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've a problem with the v.what.rast tool. I imported a vector grid of points
> with a spacing of 5 km (v.in.ogr) to GRASS, along with 12 rasters
> (r.in.arc). There is a point in the centre of each raster cell, with some
> extra points as a buffer around the edge (still on a 5 km grid).
>
> Having added extra columns to the point vector file I ran v.what.rast to
> extract the value of the 12 rasters, in turn, at each point location.
>
> Checking the result in the GRASS viewer the tool has appended data from the
> raster cell 5 km to the east at all locations.
>
> Is this a bug? Has anyone else experienced it? And most importantly - does
> anyone know how to fix it?!

We would need an example with e.g. the North Carolina sample dataset to
easily reproduce (or not) the issue:

http://grass.osgeo.org/download/sample-data/

Markus