[GRASS-user] adding vector attribute from another vector

[Markus Neteler]

maning sambale wrote on 08/05/2006 12:23 PM:
> Hi!
>
> I have a line vector of rivers generated from DEM.  I also have a file
> of stream labels as points from the geonet names server.
>
> How can I easily add the label names from gns to the stream lines?
>
> v.digit is one way, but given a large number of stream lines and
> points, is there a faster way?
>
The v.what.vect does the contrary (Uploads vector values at positions of
vector points
to the table) - maybe you could check this script and "invert" it, or
better, generalize
the script to transfer attributes in either direction.

Markus