[GRASSLIST:9652] Re: adding tables or creating new maps

[Michael Barton]

Kirk,

GRASS layers were opaque to me until recently. Once I finally figured them
out, I actually wrote it up for the GRASS WIKI. You can find it on the
vector database page at
<http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/twiki/bin/view/GRASS/VectorDatabase>

Michael
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Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-2402

phone: 480-965-6213
fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton



> From: Kirk Wythers <kwythers at umn.edu>
> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 12:03:41 -0600
> To: List Users GRASS <GRASSLIST at baylor.edu>
> Subject: [GRASSLIST:9650] adding tables or creating new maps
> 
> Happy holidays everyone!
> 
> Quick question. I want to add a new table to a vector layer. The
> table already exists in postgres (already populated), and I want to
> add it as a new layer to vector A. Is this a job for v.db.addtable?
> 
> on the other hand, since I created the table in postgres by joining
> two other tables. I could actually replace the existing table 1 that
> the vector map is linked to. In this case, should I really looking at
> creating a new map with v.in.db (two of the columns/attributes in the
> new table are x and y coordinates)?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kirk