see also https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/175
Achim wrote: > v.to.rast has the option: > > --%<-- > labelcolumn=name > Name of column used as raster category > labels > --%<-- > > And the raster values have to be numeric: > > --%<-- > column=name > Name of column for attr parameter (data type > must be numeric) > --%<-- > > (http://grass.itc.it/grass64/manuals/html64_user/v.to.rast.html) > > Try to make unique numbers from your string-column and > convert them with > column=... and labelcolumn... > > Achim > > > Dylan Beaudette schrieb: > > Hi, > > > > v.to.rast is letting me know that it does not accept > text columns in an > > attribute table. Has anyone figured out a simple > approach to making this > > work? I suppose that I could import the data into R, > convert to factors, save > > the levels back to the table and use those... but > there may be something out > > there that is simpler and can be done within GRASS. > Also, would this be > > something worth adding to the v.to.rast code? > > > > Cheers, > > Dylan _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
