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

[Nom DePlume]

That seems to have worked fine, thanks Moritz.
More qs arising I think I'll save 'til later. Maybe I'll fix them..

  Brolly

-----Original Message-----
From: Moritz Lennert [mailto:mlennert at club.worldonline.be] 
Sent: 29 March 2013 12:58
To: Nom DePlume
Cc: grass-user at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Using a vector map as target map for raster map to
georectify

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