[GRASSLIST:4699] Re: v.in.ascii and dig_cats file

[Radim Blazek]

dig_cats are ignored by v.in.ascii, you have to create 
db table directly and link it to vector:
 db.execute (create table ..., insert into ....)
 v.db.connect

Radim

On Monday 01 November 2004 19:14, David Orme wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to create a vector file through v.in.ascii, following the
> template files in Example 1 from the v.in.ascii manual page:
>
> http://grass.itc.it/grass57/manuals/html57_user/v.in.ascii.html
>
> How does the category input from dig_cats work? There was a similar
> thread last week started by Ian MacMillan but I didn't see a solution to
> getting a dig_cats file working. I've appended head output for the
> ascii, att and cats files that I have created, in case there is problem
> there.
>
> (Recent build of Grass 5.7 running on RHEL 3).
>
> Many thanks,
>
> David
>
>
> [dorme at diomedea dorme]$ head -n 20 dig_ascii/EBCC_Grid
> ORGANIZATION: ADHoC
> DIGIT DATE:   26/10/2004
> DIGIT NAME:   -
> MAP NAME:     EBCC_Grid
> MAP DATE:     2004
> MAP SCALE:    50000
> OTHER INFO:   Test polygons
> ZONE:         0
> MAP THRESH:   0.500000
> VERTI:
> A 7
>  3000000 202512
>  3000000 250000
>  3000000 300000
>  3050000 300000
>  3050000 250000
>  3050000 203715
>  3000000 202512
> A 5
>  3000000 300000
> [dorme at diomedea dorme]$ head -n 20 dig_att/EBCC_Grid
> A 250000 3025000 1
> A 3e+05 3025000 2
> A 350000 3025000 3
> A 4e+05 3025000 4
> A 450000 3025000 5
> A 5e+05 3025000 6
> A 550000 3025000 7
> A 6e+05 3025000 8
> A 650000 3025000 9
> A 7e+05 3025000 10
> A 250000 3075000 11
> A 3e+05 3075000 12
> A 350000 3075000 13
> A 4e+05 3075000 14
> A 450000 3075000 15
> A 5e+05 3075000 16
> A 550000 3075000 17
> A 6e+05 3075000 18
> A 650000 3075000 19
> A 7e+05 3075000 20
> [dorme at diomedea dorme]$ head -n 20 dig_cats/EBCC_Grid
> # 904 categories
> Vector map: EBCC_Grid
>
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