[GRASSLIST:4773] Re: extract polygons behing points

[Martin Wegmann]

On Wednesday 10 November 2004 16:22, Martin Wegmann wrote:
> I have two vector files: 100 locations and > 1000 areas.
> I want to receive a vector which holds all areas that include a location
> (must be  100).
>
> I tried v.overlay but that's not what I am looking for, because not the
> whole area of the second vector file is taken if a location is inside this
> area but just the overlapping area.

solution:
v.select ainput=area_vect atype=area binput=locations_vect 
output=location_area