[GRASS-user] v.to.rast with text column

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Wednesday 14 October 2009, Hamish wrote:
> Hamish:
> > maybe I am missing something, but why not just do:
> > "v.to.rast use=cat labelcolumn=name" ?
>
> sorry I was still thinking about ticket #175,
> that should read:
>
>  "v.to.rast use=attr column=cat labelcolumn=name"
>
>
> H

OK-- Yes. That is what I did. However, I cancelled the job before it 
completed, as it was taking 10 times longer than without the label column. I 
found that dumping my lookup table from postgres, reformatting with awk, and 
then labeling cats with r.category was much faster.

Cheers,
Dylan

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Dylan Beaudette
Soil Resource Laboratory
http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/
University of California at Davis
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