## NAME

r.digit - Interactive tool used to draw and save vector features on a graphics monitor using a pointing device (mouse)

## SYNOPSIS

r.digit

## DESCRIPTION

The GRASS tool r.digit provides the user with a way to draw lines, areas, and circles on a monitor screen, and to save these features in a cell file. Lines, areas, and circles are to be drawn using a pointing device (mouse). A mouse button menu indicates the consequences of pressing each mouse button. The user is requested to enter the category number associated with the line, area, or circle subsequently drawn by the user. Lines, areas, and circles are defined by the series of points marked by the user inside the map window. r.digit will close areas when the user has not. By drawing a series of such features, the user can repair maps, identify areas of interest, or simply draw graphics for advertisement. When drawing is completed, a raster map based on the user's instructions is generated. It is available for use as a mask, in analyses, and for display.

Digitizing is done in a "polygon" method. Each area is circumscribed completely. Two or more areas and/or lines might define a single part of a map. Each part of the map, however, is assigned only the LAST area or line which covered it.

### THE PROCESS:

1. Choose to define an area or line, quit, or finish. If you quit, the session exits with nothing created. If you choose to finish (done), you will be prompted for a new map name; the new map is then created.
2. If you choose to make an area or line you must identify the category number for that area or line.
3. Using the mouse trace the line or circumscribe the area; or, finish (go to Step 1).

## SEE ALSO

v.digit Highly interactive tool for digitizing, editing, and labeling vector data

d.display Tool for displaying and producing maps

d.mapgraph Draws simple graphics on a map

r.in.poly Tool for importing "polygon" data to raster format

## AUTHOR

Michael Shapiro, U.S.Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory

Last changed: $Date: 2002/01/25 05:45:34 $