r.to.vect

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Version: 371588 (fedora - 01/12/10)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

NAME

r.to.vect - Converts a raster map into a vector map layer.

KEYWORDS

raster

SYNOPSIS

r.to.vect
r.to.vect help
r.to.vect [-svzbq] input=name output=name feature=string [--overwrite] [--verbose] [--quiet]

Flags:

-s

Smooth corners of area features
-v

Use raster values as categories instead of unique sequence (CELL only)
-z

Write raster values as z coordinate. Table is not created. Currently supported only for points.
-b

Do not build vector topology (use with care for massive point export)
-q

Quiet - Do not show progress
--overwrite

Allow output files to overwrite existing files
--verbose

Verbose module output
--quiet

Quiet module output

Parameters:

input=name

Name of input raster map
output=name

Name for output vector map
feature=string

Feature type
Options: point,line,area
Default: line

DESCRIPTION

r.to.vect scans the named input raster map layer, extracts points, lines or area edge features from it, converts data to GRASS vector format.

Points

The r.to.vect program extracts data from a GRASS raster map layer and stores output in a new GRASS vector file.

Lines

r.to.vect assumes that the input map has been thinned using r.thin.

r.to.vect extracts vectors (aka, "arcs") from a raster map. These arcs may represent linear features (like roads or streams), or may represent area edge features (like political boundaries, or soil mapping units).

r.thin and r.to.vect may create excessive nodes at every junction, and may create small spurs or "dangling lines" during the thinning and vectorization process. These excessive nodes and spurs may be removed using v.clean.

Areas

r.to.vect first traces the perimeter of each unique area in the raster map layer and creates vector data to represent it. The cell category values for the raster map layer will be used to create attribute information for the resultant vector area edge data.

A true vector tracing of the area edges might appear blocky, since the vectors outline the edges of raster data that are stored in rectangular cells. To produce a better-looking vector map, r.to.vect smoothes the corners of the vector data as they are being extracted. At each change in direction (i.e., each corner), the two midpoints of the corner cell (half the cell's height and width) are taken, and the line segment connecting them is used to outline this corner in the resultant vector map. (The cell's cornermost node is ignored.) Because vectors are smoothed by this program, the resulting vector map will not be "true" to the raster map from which it was created. The user should check the resolution of the geographic region (and the original data) to estimate the possible error introduced by smoothing.

r.to.vect extracts only area edges from the named raster input file. If the raster map contains other data (i.e., line edges, or point data) the output may be wrong.

BUGS

For feature=line the input raster map MUST be thinned by r.thin; if not, r.to.vect may crash.

AUTHOR

Points
Bill Brown

Lines
Mike Baba
DBA Systems, Inc.
10560 Arrowhead Drive
Fairfax, Virginia 22030

Areas
Original version of r.poly:
Jean Ezell and Andrew Heekin,
U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory

Modified program for smoothed lines:
David Satnik, Central Washington University
Updated 2001 by Andrea Aime, Modena, Italy

Update
Original r.to.sites, r.line and r.poly merged and updated to 5.7 by Radim Blazek

Last changed: $Date: 2007-02-28 16:51:41 +0100 (Wed, 28 Feb 2007) $

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