I these were originally .dxf files that were obtained from Ireland's Ordinance Survey. They had labelled the lines. As to whether or not they labels converted with every thing else, I am still not sure.
on 4/01/2003 03:29 am, H Bowman at hamish_nospam@yahoo.com wrote:
> try v.to.rast and r.contour instead of r.surf.contour.
> works for me.
>
> r.contour caveat:
> It apparently uses a value of 0 for NULL, so any coastline arc will disappear.
> It's a pain and already filed as bug 1402. Changing the line to be 0.01 or
> something fixes it.
>
>
> are your lines labeled correctly?