[GRASS-user] v.overlay and points?

[Markus Metz]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:50 PM, charlie <carowan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Nikos, Thanks for the reply.
> Will v.patch merge the attribute table so all of the data will be combined
> together in a new attribute table?
>
> I am trying to merge 2 files, one with plot and address info (area) and the
> second with property owner info (point). Both of these files contain
> information about the the plot of land hence they precisely overlay each
> other, but neither contain any data, besides geography,that can be used to
> merge the files.

That sounds more like a job for v.distance where you can upload
attributes from the nearest feature in map B to Map A. In GRASS 6 you
can upload area info to the points, in GRASS 7 you can also upload
point info to the areas.

HTH,

Markus M