Vectors areas to cell groups?

[Chris C Rewerts]

If you have a vector map of *areas* that are labeled (not just lines)
then v.to.rast will create a raster map so that all the cells in an
area will have the values used to label in the vector map.

>From lists-owner at amber.cecer.army.mil Fri Sep 11 14:21:47 1992
>From: kostello at muir.sscnet.ucla.edu (Eric Kostello)
>
>I have a vector map of areas and what I want is a raster map of
>all the cells inside that area (at an appropriate resolution).
>
>Do I use v.to.rast to create a raster map of the outline and then 
>somehow fill in all the cells on the inside of the resulting 
>raster map? If so, how do I do the filling in? 
>
>Or is there some other way?
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Eric Kostello
>

Chris Rewerts   Agricultural Engineering, Purdue University