[GRASS-user] Vector - thematic question

[Richard Chirgwin]

Thanks for all the previous help! - I am getting to a point where I am 
feeling nearly competent.

I am now nearing the tasks for which I first started working with 
Grass-GIS. It involves working with multiple tables to create a thematic 
map, and it's the linking that's busting my brain.

I have:
- A map of Australia as a boundary, with locations as boundaries, and a 
numeric index of locations (vector 1), in a DBF (it was imported from a 
Geosciences Australia shapefile).
- A points file of locations within the boundaries as 
latitude/longitude, with the same numeric index identifying which 
location the points fall within (vector 2). This file is on a MySQL DB, 
with a "total" column showing the number of locations in each index number.

What I want to do is use the "total" column in vector 2 to colour vector 
1 as a thematic map. What is the best way to create this link?

Cheers,
Richard Chirgwin