On Aug 25, 2010, at 10:27 AM, Dwight Needels wrote: > Is there a straightforward way to encode a survey description of a parcel in > a text file that can then be imported into GRASS as a vector? The type of > description I am talking about looks something like this (where the numbers > are degrees/.minutes/seconds)... > > "Beginning at [a defined point], thence running North 40-35-00 East 1,125.90 > feet to a point, thence turning and running South 01-01-13 West 288.89 feet > to a point, thence turning and running South 58-18-45 West 179.33 feet to a > point, [...] , thence turning and running South 83-41-12 West 36.69 feet to > the point of beginning." >
When I have done this I computed the boundary as a series of points using a spreadsheet, created a csv version of the points and their coordinates, and then imported the ascii points file. A bit cumbersome, but then doing anything with a legal description can be challenging. Stu_______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
