Hi Markus,
Thank you for the feedback.  I had indeed used r.stream.extract after I sent 
the original post and yes, it does set the direction wonderfully.  I had (have) 
problems when adding the stream gauge point map into the network (v.net 
op=connect) ... the small vectors added had one direction (from the point to 
the stream) so traveling between points would always have an "upstream" leg ... 
if you use a cost of -1 for upstream travel (or the reverse) you will never get 
a route between points.  In an effort to get around this, Micha was kind enough 
to suggest using v.distance (upload=to_x,to_y) to create new points on the line 
vector and via export to ASCII file and re-import then add these new points to 
the network (v.net op=connect). The v.net worked but I am still having problems 
calculating the cost between points - I suspect there is a minuscule line 
vector between the point and stream line that has direction to it similar to 
the previous attempt. I ran out of time on the project and had to revert back 
to a simplistic non-directional network and using r.watershed - r.thin - 
r.to.vect and the v.net with original point locations then v.net.allpairs. I'll 
have to figure out how to go through the results in a script to get just the 
distances between gauges in the same stream flow.
Any ideas on how to get bi-direction on the connector vectors generated in 
v.net (op=connect)  would be great.  Wait! Hey, now that I think about it, 
those connectors are very small... If I set the upstream and downstream cost of 
vectors under the threshold limit used in v.net to the same (non '-1') cost 
then the route should be able to be calculated... what do you think?
:)
Chris
 
Chris Bartolomei P.E.
Engineer/Scientist
ENSCO, Inc.
[email protected]
________________________________________
From: Markus Metz [[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 12:03 PM
To: Bartolomei.Chris
Cc: grass-user
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] v.net vector orientation when creating a stream 
network with gauges

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 8:28 PM, Bartolomei.Chris
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Good afternoon,
> I was hoping someone could provide some insight as to how v.net works.  I 
> have a set of (438) watershed boundaries and their DEMs from which I have 
> created the stream vectors from the DEM rasters (r.watershed, r.thin, 
> r.to.vect, v.clean, etc.)

If you use r.stream.extract instead of r.watershed + r.thin +
r.to.vect + v.clean + etc, you get line directions pointing downstream
without any further processing/editing.

Please note that r.stream.extract also writes points at stream
sources, confluences, and outlets. If you are only interested in
vector stream segments, you can extract them with

v.extract type=line layer=1

HTH,

Markus M

> I also have the set of USGS stream gauges as points from which I extract the 
> gauges within each watershed as a separate map. I am able to use v.net 
> op=connect to create a network with the stream vectors and watershed gauge 
> points no problem and v.path successfully creates paths from one gauge to the 
> next IF the forward and backward costs are the same (cost is length).
> What I am trying to do is measure the distance between a pair of gauges that 
> are in the same flow path. I am automating this so there is no user input as 
> to which pair to select, therefore I would like to use v.net.allpairs and 
> then analyze the resulting table and select only those which have a route.
> If I set the fwd cost to length and the backwards cost to -1 to shut off 
> going upstream after traversing downstream, then the paths fail – which in 
> many cases is good, but the paths between gauges that are clearly 
> up/downstream from each other (along the same flow path) fail as well. If I 
> reverse the forward and backward cost columns the path calculations still 
> fail.
> My thoughts are that the stream vectors do not have the correct forward 
> and/or backward orientation (they are probably mixed) in the network. Is 
> there a way to see or set the orientation of the stream vectors? Does anyone 
> have experience with this?
> When I created the stream vectors, I didn’t include the 3D data, if it were 
> included in the stream vector would the forward/backward orientation then go 
> from higher elevation to lower?
>
> I’ve looked at 
> (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__grasswiki.osgeo.org_wiki_Vector-5Fextract-5Fupstream-5Fnetwork&d=CwIFaQ&c=DsZY2bea7iNIzyp-7sZ0t0F2UfNQZUfZhEPCv_2wBI0&r=O31ltou6ygJL2Y01kQyNJJD2kiILIsbyz2V0Hn4lFUY&m=1-Bq36PO0aj3hbwFOZByHU2xrelvj7pZujqnHEw3z2k&s=OC4w9JIGf5ncldjugNKCNhNN_TqudY11r4e7xIPJric&e=
>  ) and I seem to lose a lot of (stream) lines when the network is created 
> this way which I feel may be related to the vector orientations as well.
>
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> Chris
>
>
>
> Chris Bartolomei P.E.
> Engineer/Scientist
> ENSCO, Inc.

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