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[Malcolm Williamson]

On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Alberto Giorgi wrote:

> Ciao,
>   I would like know if exist a function in grass4.1 that works like 
> d.what.vect but not with use of mouse. I must insert two coordinates and
> get only the category value. Sorry for my English and thanks for replay.
> 
Hi, Alberto
For raster layers you can use r.what, but I don't recall any equivalent 
for vector layers. I'd consider rasterizing (v.to.rast) the vector data, 
and using r.what. Regards,
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