[GRASS-user] Create Vector Map from Data in Postgres Table

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2012, Rich Shepard wrote:

>  About a year ago I used v.in.ascii to create a point map and save the
> attribute data in a postgres table. Now I already have those data in a table
> and want to create a points map using the geographic coordinates (x=col 2,
> y=col 3), but associating the holeid and other attributes with each point.

>  If not, I can create an ASCII text file of the data and use v.in.ascii to
> create the map. If this is the way to proceed, I suppose that I need to
> empty that database table so the column values will be loaded as
> v.in.ascii runs.

   Well, creating an ascii text file with 4 columns and trying v.in.ascii I
see the error that the database table cannot be created.

Rich