[GRASSLIST:4531] Re: v.to.points attribute table

[Radim Blazek]

On Wednesday 13 October 2004 17:44, Jean-Denis Giguere wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have to convert hypsometric lines into elevation points. I use
> v.to.points to create new points and thi work well.
>
> I don't know how to create the attribute table for the points layer. I
> would prefer to copy all field of the line layer to the point layer, but
> I minimally need the elevation attribute.
>
> Is it related to the lfield parameter ? Documentation about this
> parameter in 5.7 manpage is not really exhaustive.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jean-Denis Giguère
> Student in geomatic applied to environnement

This we should fix (i.e. add a possibility to copy the table). 
For now, you can
- reclass points using original line category
  (v.reclass col=lcat)
- copy table (db.copy)
- link the table to points (v.db.connect)

Radim