[GRASSLIST:3077] Re: overlay site attributes on areas

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 10:52:36AM -0800, David Mahoney wrote:
> 
> Wasn't there a command to do point in polygon (vector) overlays?  I thought
> I remembered doing this, but I can't remember how.

In 5.7 use v.distance. The the recently updated docs how to do it:

 http://grass.itc.it/grass51/manuals/html57_user/v.distance.html
 "5) Point-in-polygon"

Cheers

 Markus Neteler