Tim,
I got a bit swamped into the polygonize thing, which is at the heart of
what the GRASS people suggested to me. There's now a polygonize method
in GDAL too (thanks to Frank), with which one can create those
pixel-edged polygons of reclassed rasters. I haven't yet looked into the
smoothing
Hello!
Although your message is already some days old I wanna respond.
Did you ever want gdal_contour to produce polygons instead of lines?
Yes!
I made a small Perl program that uses the Perl bindings to GDAL and
which converts the lines into polygons. The polygons represent "plates"
of equ