[GRASS-dev] v.to.db type=area: bug or typo?

[Radim Blazek]

On 9/21/06, Maciej Sieczka <tutey at o2.pl> wrote:
> Radim,
>
> One more thing. v.to.db Description says:
>
> "(...) In uploaded/printed category values (...) 'null'/'-' if category
> cannot be found or multiple categories were found."
>
> I can't reproduce that. There is a vector 'landuse' in spearfish60
> which has many centroids using the same category. When I print their
> coordinates only cat 6 is reported (OK) but according to what
> Description says, there should be some indicator of multiple cats
> printed as well. I can't see any 'null'/'-' there:
>
> $ v.to.db -p landuse option=coor type=centroid column=dum1,dum2
> cat|x|y|z
> 6|602900|4915650|0
> 8 categories read from map
> 0 records selected from table
> 0 categories read from map exist in selection from table
> 0 categories read from map don't exist in selection from table
> 0 records updated/inserted
> 0 update/insert errors
>
>
> Is Description wrong or is it a bug?

Seems to be bug in  v.to.db, the categories with multiple
geoms should be printed with '-' in coor cols.

Radim

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> Maciek
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