Re: [GRASS-user] Measuring Distance Along a Line

2012-01-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 20 Jan 2012, Maris Nartiss wrote: if You are interested to get similar functionality like r.profile does for raster, there's a GRASS add-on v.profile, that allows to profile vector point and line maps. Area support is not implemented. Maris, This is good to know. Thank you, Rich

Re: [GRASS-user] Measuring Distance Along a Line

2012-01-19 Thread Maris Nartiss
Hello, if You are interested to get similar functionality like r.profile does for raster, there's a GRASS add-on v.profile, that allows to profile vector point and line maps. Area support is not implemented. Input for v.profile should be a map with a single transect line (or single line should be

Re: [GRASS-user] Measuring Distance Along a Line

2012-01-18 Thread Marcello Gorini
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.comwrote: I have a map with a couple of transect lines that intersect points on a separate map. I want to measure the distance from one end of each transect line to the point which it overlays. While I thought there was a v.

Re: [GRASS-user] Measuring Distance Along a Line

2012-01-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Marcello Gorini wrote: Again, vectors are not my thing, but maybe you could include the end point into your vector and use v.to.db with option=length to get the distance along your line vector. Marcello, I don't want the endpoint, but the distance where it overlays a

Re: [GRASS-user] Measuring Distance Along a Line

2012-01-18 Thread Alex Mandel
On 01/18/2012 12:32 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Alex Mandel wrote: I'm not sure I get what you're trying to do, but distance along a line would be in the v.net module. Alex, When I read the v.net man page it suggested that it provided distances from node-to-node on a