[GRASSLIST:8656] Re: v.to.rast with line layers

[Hamish]

> I can't seem to find the way to rasterize a simple roads (line) vector
> layer. I tried with points and areas and both worked, but lines did
> not. A peculiar thing is that if I try to digitize a line vector and
> rasterize it, it works, but with the "roads" vector layer I always get
> a blank raster.


perhaps this is it:

only features with a category number will be converted. Use v.category.

make sure region is correct.

?
Hamish