I am trying to convert vector SSURGO soils data to a raster using v.to.rast. The attribute I want to use for the conversion is a categorical string describing soil type, so I need to generate int categories before converting. I explored v.category for doing this, but I'm not sure it's what I'm looking for. I want to assign all polygons with the same soil description the same number. For example, output from `v.db.select map=soils | head` is below.  I want to create a new attribute based on "sm_soil_se" called "sm_soil_se_int" that is a categorical int value for each string category. I don't care what the numbers are, so long as each of the polygons with the same string value have the same categorical int value. (I will assign the string values to each int category using the "label_column" parameter.)

Is there an existing GRASS command that will do this? If not, should I be using Python?

Thank  you!!

-Damian

cat|sm_mapunit|sm_mapun_1|sm_soil_se|sm_csr|rating
1|160|456713|"Xerorthents-Millsholm complex, 50 to 75 percent slopes"||10
2|TaE|455865|"Tierra loam, 15 to 30 percent slopes, MLRA 14"||40
3|CoF|455785|"Cut and fill land-Millsholm complex, 30 to 50 percent slopes"||20
4|MeG|455829|"Millsholm loam, 20 to 60 percent slopes, moist, MLRA 15"||10
5|LeF|455816|"Los Gatos loam, 30 to 50 percent slopes"||20
6|GcF|455802|"Los Gatos loam, 30 to 50 percent slopes"||20

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