On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:50 PM, charlie <caro...@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 _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user