[GRASSLIST:4875] Re: v.overlay and point data

[Radim Blazek]

Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> So far v.overlay has worked well with line and area data.... but now I have 
> point data that I need to intersect with polygons... This is all in GRASS 
> 5.7-cvs with points stored as GRASS 5.7 vectors
> 
> v.overlay does not appear to support point data as an input, and I have 
> verified empirically that it indeed does not work.
> 
> 
> Is there any work on updating v.overlay in GRASS 5.7 to work with vector point 
> data?
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> thanks in advance
> 

No but you can use v.distance max=0 to get area number for each point.

Radim