[GRASSLIST:3385] Re: Category labels in dig_cats

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 06:34:40PM -0700, Roger Miller wrote:
> On Monday 25 March 2002 17:56, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
> 
> > 1. Are the labels only for labeling / naming objects, or GRASS can
> > actually consider it as 'property' of the objects, and therefore can draw
> > objects with appearance depend on this 'property' (label)? Or are there
> > different attributing mechanism for this purpose?
> 
> GRASS can label vector objects with values and can associates a name with 
> each value.  The name can be regarded as a property associated with the 
> value.   There are a few things that you can do with the values, but not a 
> lot.  d.vect.cats lets you display categories (based on the values) with 
> different colored lines. 

Please note that in GRASS 5.0.0pre3:
d.vect.cats -> d.vect

The functionality was merged into d.vect (in fact d.vect was merged into
d.vect.cats and the result renamed to d.vect).

Cheers,

 Markus