NAME
v.what.vect - Uploads vector values at positions of vector points to the table
KEYWORDS
vector, database, attribute table
SYNOPSIS
v.what.vect
v.what.vect help
v.what.vect vector=name qvector=name [layer=integer] [qlayer=integer] column=string qcolumn=string
Parameters:
- vector=name
- Vector map with points for which to modify the attribute table
- qvector=name
- Vector map to be queried
- layer=integer
- Layer of the vector for which to modify the attribute table
- Default: 1
- qlayer=integer
- Layer of the vector to be queried
- Default: 1
- column=string
- Column to be updated with the query result
- qcolumn=string
- Column to be queried
DESCRIPTION
v.what.vect transfers attributes from the qvector's map
attribute table into the attribute table of points present in the
vector map. The script is based on v.distance.
NOTES
The upload column, into which the query results are stored, must be
present in the vector map. Use v.db.addcol to add one if needed.
This module only uploads attributes which exist at the exact positions of
the input's vector points. For a "nearest feature" fit, use
v.distance instead.
In case of a multipoint input vector map, with several points having the
same category number, it can happen, that the query result is NULL, if the same
category number falls into different qvector polygons.
EXAMPLE
In this example, the 'archsites' point map in the Spearfish location is copied
to the current mapset, a new attribute column is added and the owner
names from the 'fields' polygon map are transferred to the 'myarchsites'
map at points' locations:
g.copy vect=archsites,myarchsites
v.db.addcol myarchsites col="owner varchar(25)"
v.what.vect myarchsites qvect=fields column=owner qcolumn=label
# verification:
v.db.select myarchsites
SEE ALSO
v.db.addcol,
v.db.select,
v.distance,
v.what.rast
AUTHOR
Markus Neteler
Last changed: $Date: 2007/03/08 13:51:31 $
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