[GRASSLIST:5430] Re: questions with vectors in grass6

[Hamish]

> I have a political map of south america, and I'd like to create a
> raster mask of it, but when I convert to raster, only the lines are
> there. In GRASS 5.4 there was a command, v.line2area, that was perfect
> for it. How to do it in 6.0?

v.type
v.category option=add
 ? I forget the exact way to add centroids..


see the "NOTES" section on the v.to.rast help page as well.


> Can I merge all polygons in a single one?
> how?

v.extract -d



Hamish