On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Dwight Needels <[email protected]> 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."
m.cogo comes to mind: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/m.cogo.html for turning this into to true coordinates, then perhaps v.in.ascii. Markus _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
