J Swan wrote:

Suppose we have two BGL graphs g1 and g2, of type Graph1 and Graph2 respectively, such that g2 is a copy of g1. Given a vertex_descriptor v1 belonging to g1, can one generically obtain the corresponding vertex descriptor for g2:

a) if Graph1 and Graph2 are actually the same type

If both use vecS for vertices, then v2 = v1; If both use listS for vertices, then you either need to manipulate iterators, or you need to create vector_property_map m; and initialize by parallel vertex traversal before doing mapping.

b) if Graph1 and Graph2 are different types?

You need to create a map. The copy_graph function allows you to pass an argument where the mapping will be stored. - Volodya