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@@ -12,16 +12,25 @@ patched together (e.g., border lines) will have to be
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edited or removed after <em>v.patch</em> is run. Such
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editing can be done automatically using
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<em><a href="v.clean.html">v.clean</a></em>.
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-<p>Lines may need to be
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-snapped with <em><a href="v.clean.html">v.clean</a>
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-tool=snap,break,rmdupl</em>.
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-<p>Boundaries may need to be cleaned with
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+<p>
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+Lines may need to be snapped with <em><a
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+href="v.clean.html">v.clean</a> tool=snap,break,rmdupl</em>.
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+<p>
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+Boundaries may need to be cleaned with
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<em><a href="v.clean.html">v.clean</a> tool=break,rmdupl,rmsa</em>
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repeatedly until the <em>rmsa</em> tool (Remove small angles at nodes)
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no longer modifies any boundaries. If vector topology is still not
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clean, boundaries may also need to be snapped with
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<em><a href="v.clean.html">v.clean</a> tool=snap,break,rmdupl</em>.
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-<p>When using the <em>-a</em> flag, the user has to make sure that the
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+<p>
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+When using the <em>-e</em> flag, <em>v.patch</em> shifts category (cat)
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+values in the output so that category numbers from the different input
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+maps do not overlap. This shift is applied to both the category values
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+of the features and the category values in the attribute tables. Hence,
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+there is no need to run <em><a href="v.category.html">v.category</a></em>
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+and <em><a href="v.db.update.html">v.db.update</a></em> beforehand.
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+<p>
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+When using the <em>-a</em> flag, the user has to make sure that the
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features in the different maps added to the output map do not have
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overlapping category numbers, unless identical category numbers
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reflect identical attributes, otherwise the attributes of the added
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