[GRASSLIST:7887] Re: Developing Geonet map place names in GRASS?

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 12:30:29AM +0200, Jeremy Stocks wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Thanks to the help of Markus Nettler I have succeded in importing the 
> Geonet names into GRASS as a vector layer.
> 
> Now what do I do with it?
> 
> Any pointers to database attributes I need to specify?
> I simply want o display my VMAP data with these names on top.

Please see the manual page of v.in.gns. I comes with a 
link to the table explaiing the attributes.

Then use d.vect, activate "display=attr" and attrcol=SHORTNAME or so.

Markus