[GRASS-dev] question about raster cats and labels

[Michael Barton]

On Feb 27, 2009, at 2:04 AM, Moritz Lennert wrote:

> On 27/02/09 05:45, Michael Barton wrote:
>> Is it possible in a raster to have multiple cells with the same cat  
>> value but different label values?
>
> Not as far as I know. Labels are linked to cat values, not to cells.  
> This is the entire logic of the system, i.e. that cat values  
> represent the content of the cell and that labels explain that  
> content. In that logic, it wouldn't make any sense to explain the  
> same cell content differently for two different cells.
>
> If you want to link more than one attribute to a cell, you have to  
> work with vector grids.
>
> Moritz

That's what I thought, but I thought I'd check. That squashes an idea  
we had to record different kinds of information in the cat and label.

Michael