<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>GRASS GIS: v.type</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="grassdocs.css" type="text/css"> </head> <body bgcolor="white"> <img src="grass_logo.png" alt="GRASS logo"><hr align=center size=6 noshade> <h2>NAME</h2> <em><b>v.type</b></em> - Change the type of geometry elements. <h2>KEYWORDS</h2> vector, geometry <h2>SYNOPSIS</h2> <b>v.type</b><br> <b>v.type help</b><br> <b>v.type</b> <b>input</b>=<em>name</em> <b>output</b>=<em>name</em> [<b>type</b>=<em>string</em>[,<i>string</i>,...]] [--<b>overwrite</b>] [--<b>verbose</b>] [--<b>quiet</b>] <h3>Flags:</h3> <DL> <DT><b>--overwrite</b></DT> <DD>Allow output files to overwrite existing files</DD> <DT><b>--verbose</b></DT> <DD>Verbose module output</DD> <DT><b>--quiet</b></DT> <DD>Quiet module output</DD> </DL> <h3>Parameters:</h3> <DL> <DT><b>input</b>=<em>name</em></DT> <DD>Name of input vector map</DD> <DT><b>output</b>=<em>name</em></DT> <DD>Name for output vector map</DD> <DT><b>type</b>=<em>string[,<i>string</i>,...]</em></DT> <DD>Pairs for input and output type separated by comma</DD> <DD><input_type1>,<output_type1>,<input_type2>,<output_type2>,...<br> Example1: line,boundary<br> Example2: line,boundary,point,centroid</DD> <DD>Options: <em>point,line,boundary,centroid,face,kernel</em></DD> <DD>Default: <em>line,boundary,point,centroid</em></DD> </DL> <h2>DESCRIPTION</h2> <em>v.type</em> changes the type of geometry primitives. <h2>EXAMPLES</h2> <em>Convert lines to area boundaries</em><br> <div class="code"><pre> v.type input=map_l output=map_b type=line,boundary </pre></div> <h2>SEE ALSO</h2> <EM><A HREF="v.to.points.html">v.to.points</A></EM> <h2>AUTHOR</h2> Radim Blazek, ITC-Irst, Trento, Italy <p><i>Last changed: $Date: 2006-01-02 15:44:52 +0100 (Mon, 02 Jan 2006) $</i> <HR> <P><a href="index.html">Main index</a> - <a href="vector.html">vector index</a> - <a href="full_index.html">Full index</a></P> <P>© 2003-2008 <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org">GRASS Development Team</a></p> </body> </html>
