[GRASS-user] manually selecting a region

[Ken Mankoff]

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 4:11 AM, Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be
> wrote:
>
> AFAIK, d.where does not allow direct interaction with the display anymore.
> It "just" takes screen coordinates and outputs them as map coordinates. In
> GRASS 6 you could get the screen coordinates by clicking on the d.mon
> display, but in GRASS 7 this is handled by the GUI (g.gui or d.mon wx*). In
> other words you chose the GUI interrogation tool and when you click on the
> monitor, it launches d.where and you get the coordinates. You can ask for
> these coordinates to be redirected to the console.
>
> I agree that the current solution is not ideal. For example, it is not
> straightforward how to collect the info into a file. Also: the output is
> not really as machine-parsing friendly as it could.
>
> See https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/3310 and add to it if you think
> something is missing.


Thanks for the reply. I will think about and add suggestions to the ticket.
Let me know if I can help debug the "ERROR: Vector digitizer not available.
cannot import name GV_LINES" issue.

  -k.
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