There has been a thread about how v.transform functions and Glynn pointed
out that part of the problem is that the short description does not really
describe what it does, at least from a GIS perspective:
" Transforms a vector map layer from one coordinate system into another
coordinate system."
I'm working on wxgrass menus at the moment and trying to come up with useful
menu entries. A better short description for v.transform might be:
"Reposition (shift and rotate) vector file in coordinate space"
Thoughts?
Michael
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v.transform: perform affine transformation (translate and rotate) a
vector file.
See affine transformation in wikipedia.
John
Indeed. I recently did some stuff with v.transform / affine transformation.
perhaps I can summarize it, and include a helpful figure in the man page.
http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/drupal/node/433
specifically the shifted grid example:
http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/drupal/node/435
cheers,
On Thursday 14 June 2007 07:40, John Gillette wrote:
v.transform: perform affine transformation (translate and rotate) a
vector file.
See affine transformation in wikipedia.
John
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Michael Barton wrote:
There has been a thread about how v.transform functions and Glynn pointed
out that part of the problem is that the short description does not really
describe what it does, at least from a GIS perspective:
" Transforms a vector map layer from one coordinate system into another
coordinate system."
I'm working on wxgrass menus at the moment and trying to come up with useful
menu entries. A better short description for v.transform might be:
"Reposition (shift and rotate) vector file in coordinate space"
Thoughts?
It can also scale.
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Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
On Thursday 14 June 2007 12:15, Glynn Clements wrote:
Michael Barton wrote:
> There has been a thread about how v.transform functions and Glynn pointed
> out that part of the problem is that the short description does not
> really describe what it does, at least from a GIS perspective:
>
> " Transforms a vector map layer from one coordinate system into another
> coordinate system."
>
> I'm working on wxgrass menus at the moment and trying to come up with
> useful menu entries. A better short description for v.transform might be:
>
> "Reposition (shift and rotate) vector file in coordinate space"
>
> Thoughts?
It can also scale.
... and to be complete, it can also shear.
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Dylan Beaudette
Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
University of California at Davis
530.754.7341
Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> > There has been a thread about how v.transform functions and Glynn pointed
> > out that part of the problem is that the short description does not
> > really describe what it does, at least from a GIS perspective:
> >
> > " Transforms a vector map layer from one coordinate system into another
> > coordinate system."
> >
> > I'm working on wxgrass menus at the moment and trying to come up with
> > useful menu entries. A better short description for v.transform might be:
> >
> > "Reposition (shift and rotate) vector file in coordinate space"
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> It can also scale.
... and to be complete, it can also shear.
Only when using the pointsfile= option; there isn't any direct way to
specify a transformation which includes shear.
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Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
On 6/15/07, Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com> wrote:
Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> > > There has been a thread about how v.transform functions and Glynn pointed
> > > out that part of the problem is that the short description does not
> > > really describe what it does, at least from a GIS perspective:
> > >
> > > " Transforms a vector map layer from one coordinate system into another
> > > coordinate system."
> > >
> > > I'm working on wxgrass menus at the moment and trying to come up with
> > > useful menu entries. A better short description for v.transform might be:
> > >
> > > "Reposition (shift and rotate) vector file in coordinate space"
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> >
> > It can also scale.
>
> ... and to be complete, it can also shear.
Only when using the pointsfile= option; there isn't any direct way to
specify a transformation which includes shear.
Yes, good (point) . It would be an interesting add-on, to manually
specify the components of the affine transformation matrix. perhaps in
addition to the existing manual adjustments. Maybe I will have a try
at this.
cheers,
dylan
John Gillette wrote:
v.transform: perform affine transformation (translate and rotate) a
vector file.
See affine transformation in wikipedia.
John
I have update the one line description of the module. It would be good
to get the description.html extended, too.
Markus
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