Multiple attributes may be linked to a single vector entity through numbered fields referred to as layers. Refer to v.category for more details, as v.centroids is simply a frontend to that module.
The boundary itself is often stored without any category reference as it can mark the border between two adjacent areas. Thus it would be ambiguous as to which feature the attribute would belong. In some cases it may, for example, represent a road between two parcels of land. In this case it is entirely appropriate for the boundary to contain category information.
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