d.what.vect(1)

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version 8.4.2 · 8 versions
, in fedora 44

💖 d.what.vect — GRASS GIS User's Manual, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, so this is d.what.vect from the GRASS GIS User's Manual (section 1, we're fancy like that ✨). It's the little tool that lets you poke at your vector map layers and ask "hey… what's this one?" at whatever spot you click. Interactive querying, main character energy only. 👑

KEYWORDS: display, vector 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

like, the whole vibe of how you call her:

d.what.vect
d.what.vect --help
d.what.vect map=name[,name,...]  [--help]  [--verbose]  [--quiet]
[--ui]

🎀 Flags

  • --help — prints the usage summary, i.e. the "what does this even do" cheat sheet 🫶
  • --verbose — verbose module output, she's gonna talk 💬
  • --quiet — quiet module output, she's gonna not 💀
  • --ui — forces the GUI dialog to launch, pop-up queen behavior ✨

🌸 Parameters

  • map=name[,name,...] — required, no skipping this one bestie 💅
    • Name of input vector map(s) — and yes you can stack them with commas, go off 👑
    • Or data source(s) for direct OGR access 🔥

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

So d.what.vect outputs the category value(s) that go with whatever location(s) you picked, inside whatever vector map layer(s) you specified. That's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly. ✨

And the active monitor? You pick that with d.mon, bestie — she doesn't choose her own stage. 🎬

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

your little friend group of related modules, all iconic, no notes:

  • d.what.rast
  • d.redraw
  • d.erase
  • d.rast
  • d.vect
  • d.mon

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Anna Petrasova, NCSU GeoForAll Lab — literal legend, we stan 🌈

🌟 SOURCE CODE 🌟

Available at: d.what.vect source code (history) — go look at the code, it's giving open source royalty 💖

Accessed: Saturday Jan 17 05:41:51 2026 ⏰

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