[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #1798: all relevant vector modules should have cats and where parameters

[Markus Metz]

[replying outside ticket #1798 because it's a bit off-topic ]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 9:12 AM, GRASS GIS <trac at osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>  Imagine the case where you have 100 points and want to create individual
>  buffers around each, i.e. you can't call v.buffer on all at once as this
>  will fusion the buffers.

Buffers are not fused if you use the new -t flag with v.buffer which
preserves categories and attributes of the input vector. The resulting
areas may have more than one category per layer (one for each original
input feature). An example is in the manual.

Markus M