[GRASS-user] Re: Points in a vector-map (stn)

[Richard Chirgwin]

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> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:25:26 +0200
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> Hi,
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> how can I identify which point lies in which polygon?
>
> The points are in an ascii-table, each with latitude, longitude and some
> other attributes like name, altitude and id-number.
> The vector-map is a map with political boundaries found in the vmap0-dataset
> at http://www.gdf-hannover.de/gis.php?id=5
>
> THX,
> stn

Use v.distance from points to polygon, and store a polygon attribute 
(such as cat) in the points table.

Richard