[GRASS-user] simple way to join some attribute data w/o geometries

[Benjamin Ducke]

That was my first guess, too.
However, v.db.join does not support the DBF backend, according
to the manual page.

Is there an alternative way?

Thanks,

Benjamin

Tomas Lanczos wrote:
> Benjamin Ducke wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> is there a simple way to join some attribute data
>> in a comma separated text file to an existing GRASS
>> vector map?
>>
>> The data in the CSV file does not have any coordinates
>> but a primary key field that also exists in the polygon
>> map it needs to be joined to.
>>
>> ArcGIS 9.2 seems to be able to do this easily, so surely
>> there must be a way to do it in GRASS, as well?
>>
>> If I were to write a little GRASS module for this
>> purpose, what would be the smartest way to go about
>> it?
> 
> Try to convert the CSV file to DBF table somehow (e.g. in OOo Calc) and
> then connect the table to the vector.
> 
> regards
> 
> Tomas
> 
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Benjamin
>>
> 
> 
> 

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