[GRASS5] Using points to select attributes from an area

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I've got something that seems like it should reasonably simple to
do, and I've several approaches with no luck so I thought I'd ask
for suggestions here.

I have a bunch of points in one vector file, I have another
vector file that contains areas which represent territories.
I'd like to select an attribute from the territories that contain
points and associate/add that attribute to all the points within those
categories.

I thought I could somehow use v.overlay, but it only does lines
and areas :-/

I don't mind going into programming with r if there are functions
for finding if a point resides in an area, but thought I'd check
I'm not missing a simpler method.

Thanks for your time,
Joel

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Joel Peter William Pitt wrote:

I've got something that seems like it should reasonably simple to
do, and I've several approaches with no luck so I thought I'd ask
for suggestions here.

I have a bunch of points in one vector file, I have another
vector file that contains areas which represent territories.
I'd like to select an attribute from the territories that contain
points and associate/add that attribute to all the points within those
categories.

I thought I could somehow use v.overlay, but it only does lines
and areas :-/

I don't mind going into programming with r if there are functions
for finding if a point resides in an area, but thought I'd check
I'm not missing a simpler method.

Thanks for your time,
Joel

You can upload area category using v.distance and then update
the table in database using attribute table of areas.
If the attribute is integer, it is easier to v.reclass first
areas and then you get te attribute directly.

Radim