On Oct 1, 2010, at 4:06 AM, Micha Silver wrote:
> On 10/01/2010 01:35 AM, Adam Dershowitz, Ph.D., P.E. wrote: >> I have a series of points in an ascii files that represent points along a >> line. I would like to import them as a line, or import and convert to a >> line. >> I see that 6.5 has v.in.lines, but I am using 6.4. Is there any other way >> to do that conversion? >> >> The data is 3D x,y,z points. I can just import them using v.in.ascii, but >> then they are points, with no lines. Is there another way to either import, >> directly, or convert? >> >> > If it's only one line, then the simplest might be to re-write the ASCII file > formated in the GRASS "standard" format, as a line. You'll need to add the > header lines, something like: > VERTI: > L n 1 > X_coord Y_coord > ... > ... > 1 1 > > Where 'n' is the number of points. > > Then run v.in.ascii ... format=standard and it should result in a line vector. Thanks. It is actually one line, at the moment, so I did that, and it worked fine. But I will have others. so was hoping for a generic solution. I wrote a shell script that transforms my particular data into "standard" and it seems to be working fine. Again, thanks for the response. --Adam_______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
