v.what.spoly - GRASS GIS manual

NAME

v.what.spoly - Queries vector map with overlapping "spaghetti" polygons (e.g. Landsat footprints) at given location. Polygons must have not intersected boundaries.

KEYWORDS

vector, topology

SYNOPSIS

v.what.spoly

v.what.spoly --help

v.what.spoly [-p] input=name [output=name] coor=name [--overwrite] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]

Flags:

-p: Only print selected polygons
--overwrite: Allow output files to overwrite existing files
--help: Print usage summary
--verbose: Verbose module output
--quiet: Quiet module output
--ui: Force launching GUI dialog

Parameters:

input=name [required]: Name of input polygon vector map
output=name: Name of output vector map
coor=name [required]: Coordinates to query

DESCRIPTION
NOTES
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR

DESCRIPTION

v.what.spoly queries vector map with overlaping "spaghetti" polygons (e.g. Landsat footprints) at given location. Polygons must have not intersected boundaries (not cleaned).

NOTES

Module only runs in locations with Cartesian coordinates. Module needs GDAL utilities and GDAL-Python to be installed.

EXAMPLES

    v.what.spoly.py input=poly out=poly_select coor=465113.204082,5436513.2449

AUTHOR

Alexander Muriy (IEG RAS, Moscow)

SOURCE CODE

Available at: v.what.spoly source code (history)

Latest change: Tuesday Feb 17 14:54:26 2026 in commit: 051b9c19442e746e2b51f9c5382809a45230b4c0