[GRASS-user] Using a vector map as target map for raster map to georectify

[Moritz Lennert]

On 29/03/13 13:40, Nom DePlume wrote:
> Hi Markus (/All)
>
> I’m using your book to learn Grass, and am presently exploring the
> Georectify tool, but using the wxGUI, as recently assisted by Martin
> Lander. I am trying to follow what I can through the way you are
> demonstrating with your files before I try my own stuff, but am unable
> to select a vector file, map streets_wake as my georectify target. This
> issue was addressed previously in
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2012-January/063055.html and
> apparently fixed (?), but version Grass 6.4.2 for Windows (Vista) does
> not seem to permit me:
>
> ‘I have added full vector support in the wx georectifier (trunk
>
> r50059). You can now display a vector and/or a raster from the target
>
> location, and the long-standing bug [1] for vector rectification is
>
> also fixed by using the new module v.rectify.’
>
> Haven’t yet worked out how to correctly use v.to.rast, but seems cleaner
> and better if I can use a vector map natively.
>
> Is the option to select a vector target there somewhere?-Feel there is
> likely a simple answer to this!

AFAIK, this is only available in trunk, aka GRASS 7. There is a windows 
installer for grass7: http://wingrass.fsv.cvut.cz/grass70/.

Moritz