[GRASS-dev] v.edit

[Hamish]

Jachym Cepicky wrote:
> Why should a boundary NOT have category too? How would you distinguish
> two different types of boundary arround one area? Example on
> 
> http://les-ejk.cz/tmp/boundaries.gif
> 
> One country (Sachsen) has 2 different types of boundaries (country and
> state).
> 
> I thing, it is usefull to have a possibility for adding category
> number (and attributes) to boundary too.
> 
> Or do I understand it wrong?


It can have its uses. You can give a boundary a cat with v.category if
you want.

In general it isn't needed, and worse can subtly change things (like
v.to.rast output) so should be used with caution.

v.edit could have the power to add boundary cats, just leave it out of
the GUI controls ;)


Hamish