[GRASS-user] Problem with v.edit delete tool

[Daniel Victoria]

Thanks Moritz,

v.extract did the job. The only downside is that I need to keep creating
temporary layers since I'll have to do a series of edits. But no problem.
It can be done.

Cheers
Daniel

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Moritz Lennert <
mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:

> On 31/08/16 16:32, Daniel Victoria wrote:
>
>> Hi List,
>>
>> This is probably more due to my lack of understanding of how v.edit
>> works. But here it goes.
>>
>> I have a polygon vector layer where some of the polygons have a 'No
>> data' label. I'd like to delete those polygons so I ran the command,
>> with the following output:
>>
>> v.edit map=teste at isna tool=delete where="label like '%no data%'"
>> Selecting features...
>> 207 of 7200 features selected from vector map <teste at isna>
>> 207 features deleted
>> Building topology for vector map <teste at isna>...
>> Registering primitives...
>> 6993 primitives registered
>> 29546 vertices registered
>> Building areas...
>> 2195 areas built
>> 264 isles built
>> Attaching islands...
>> Attaching centroids...
>> Number of nodes: 3086
>> Number of primitives: 6993
>> Number of points: 0
>> Number of lines: 0
>> Number of boundaries: 5017
>> Number of centroids: 1976
>> Number of areas: 2195
>> Number of isles: 264
>> v.edit complete.
>>
>> After that, the offending polygons where deleted however, their
>> boundaries are still present. That is, when I load the vector in the map
>> display, I still see the boundaries in some polygons, even though the
>> area is not filled. Is this the intended behavior? I tried using the
>> areadel tool but then the whong polygon was deleted. I'm guessing the
>> shared boundary of a valid polygon was removed and his caused problems.
>>
>> Attached is a sample of what I'm seeing after v.edit delete
>>
>>
> Attributes of areas are linked to the centroid of the area. So the
> features you select through your query are these centroids, not the
> boundaries.
>
> It would probably be nice to have a type=area option in v.edit.
>
> To get the same result, you could use v.extract -r type=area.
>
> Moritz
>
>
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