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

Moritz Lennert mlennert at club.worldonline.be
Sun Mar 18 13:31:47 EDT 2012


On 16/03/12 18:15, 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.
>
> I've run db.connect and db.login within the project location/mapset and
> now need to create a vector point ('sites') map from these data. The table
> schema is,
>
> CREATE TABLE boreholes (
> holeid TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
> easting NUMERIC(13,6) NOT NULL,
> northing NUMERIC(13,6) NOT NULL,
> surf_elev REAL,
> holedepth INTEGER,
> purpose VARCHAR(16),
> lithology VARCHAR(16),
> hole_diam REAL,
> well_diam REAL,
> flow_gpm REAL,
> h2o_elev REAL,
> comment TEXT
> );
>
> Can I use v.in.ogr to create a GRASS vector map from these data?

Try v.in.db.

Moritz


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