<DIV>Paul</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks for the tips. Work fine now.</DIV>
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<DIV>Firuz<BR><BR><B><I>Paul Kelly <paul-grass@stjohnspoint.co.uk></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, [iso-8859-1] firuz ramli wrote:<BR><BR>> Dear list,<BR>><BR>> I am having a slight problem when try to import contour shape file into<BR>> GRASS. I managed to import the file but the main problem is when I ran the v.report and also d.what.vect, instead of the contour value been imported, the category number is shown such as 0, 1, 2, 3 and so on. I need to have the contour value because I need to generate DEM from it.<BR><BR>Read the man page for v.in.shape. You need to use the attribute and/or<BR>label options to take the fields you want out of the shapefile, otherwise<BR>the contour values won't be imported. The -d flag is also useful to see<BR>the names of these fields.<BR><BR>The v.in.shape man page explains this fairly thoroughly, but it is buried<BR>quite deep in it and could probably be made clearer. An interactive<BR>version that would l!
ist the
fields in the dbf file and allow the user to<BR>choose which one should be the attribute number and which the category<BR>label would certainly be useful.<BR><BR>Paul<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><p><hr size=1><font face="Arial" size="2"> <a href="http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/mail/tagline_messenger/*http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com"><b>
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