[GRASS-user] why v.patch -e produces cat column starting from 2?

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 15:29 +0100, Moritz Lennert wrote:
> > ### Why not with 1??
> 
> I don't know, but is it a problem ? I don't have time to really dig
> into 
> the v.patch code right, now...
> 
> In any case category numbers of a patch results using '-e' have no 
> relation to category numbers in the original maps, as how would you 
> handle the case with map 1 cats=1-3 and map 2 cats=1-3. At least the 
> categories of map 2 will have to be changed.

Moritz,

I appreciate your time to explain this. Thank you.

Well, I am sure now about categories and their role :-) but I am unsure
now about whether it is a problem or not :D

When I bomb again into a related problem I'll report back.

Cheers, Nikos