[GRASS-user] Adding attributes to vector map

[R.S. Bhalla]

Hi Jitu,
There are many ways you can do this.
Built in database modules you should look at are v.db.join in the
Database--> Vector database connectsion and modules under the Vector-->
Update Attributes menu.
However, GRASS supports a range of database backends, sqlite by default
in GRASS  7 and dbf (X-base) before version 7. You could use the
interfaces that come with these database packages and plain SQL (both in
and out of GRASS) to do your table manipulation.
The latter is more flexible.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Ravi

On 03/20/2014 06:56 PM, Jitendra Kumar wrote:
> I want to be able to add additional attributes to existing vector
> layer in GRASS. For point and polygons I want to query the existing
> cat or attributes and then add data in a new field from information
> from a external file.
> For example, I want to query the US County map polygons for county
> name and select the value to be uploaded for that county from an
> external file.
>
> I am not sure what's the best way to do it. I would appreciate any
> tips to do it using GRASS functions and/or Python API.
>
> Thanks,
> Jitu
>
>
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