d.what.vect(1grass)

✨ d.what.vect — the GRASS User's Manual edition ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because this is d.what.vect from the GRASS User's Manual and she is that girl 💅

🦋 NAME 🦋

d.what.vect — lets you interactively query vector map layers at locations you pick with your own lil cursor. point and click, queen 👑

🎀 KEYWORDS 🎀

display, vector

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

⭐ Flags ⭐

• --help — prints the usage summary, aka the "what do I even type" cheat sheet 🫶
• --verbose — verbose module output, she's chatty, she's telling you everything 💬
• --quiet — quiet module output, shhh, minimal words only 🤫
• --ui — forces the GUI dialog to launch, no terminal-only vibes 🖥️

💜 Parameters 💜

• map=name[,name,...] [required] — the name(s) of the input vector map(s) you wanna interrogate. or, alternate flavor: data source(s) for direct OGR access 👀

no cap, map is required. you can't run this with no map, that's not a thing, bestie.

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so what does she do? d.what.vect outputs the category value(s) associated with the user-specified location(s) in the user-specified vector map layer(s). basically: you point at stuff on your map, and she tells you what category lives there. iconic behavior. 🔥

and listen — the active monitor can be selected with d.mon. so if you're staring at a blank canvas wondering why nothing's showing up, that's your sign, go pick a monitor first 🖥️✨

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

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

go read those too, they're all in the same friend group 🫶

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💖 AUTHOR 💖

Anna Petrasova, NCSU GeoForAll Lab

🧚 SOURCE CODE 🧚

Available at: d.what.vect source code (history)

Latest change: Friday Feb 07 19:16:09 2025 in commit: a82a39f673b97fafcfce1604dc3e6015cb96487a

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