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NAME

       v.net.distance   -  Computes  shortest  distance via the network between the given sets of
       features.
       Finds the shortest paths from each ’from’ point to the nearest ’to’  feature  and  various
       information about this relation are uploaded to the attribute table.

KEYWORDS

       vector, network, shortest path

SYNOPSIS

       v.net.distance
       v.net.distance --help
       v.net.distance        [-g]        input=name        output=name         [arc_layer=string]
       [arc_type=string[,string,...]]           [node_layer=string]           [from_layer=string]
       [from_cats=range]                 [from_where=sql_query]                 [to_layer=string]
       [to_type=string[,string,...]]   [to_cats=range]   [to_where=sql_query]   [arc_column=name]
       [arc_backward_column=name]    [node_column=name]    [--overwrite]   [--help]   [--verbose]
       [--quiet]  [--ui]

   Flags:
       -g
           Use geodesic calculation for longitude-latitude locations

       --overwrite
           Allow output files to overwrite existing files

       --help
           Print usage summary

       --verbose
           Verbose module output

       --quiet
           Quiet module output

       --ui
           Force launching GUI dialog

   Parameters:
       input=name [required]
           Name of input vector map
           Or data source for direct OGR access

       output=name [required]
           Name for output vector map

       arc_layer=string
           Arc layer
           Vector features can have category values in different layers. This  number  determines
           which layer to use. When used with direct OGR access this is the layer name.
           Default: 1

       arc_type=string[,string,...]
           Arc type
           Input feature type
           Options: line, boundary
           Default: line,boundary

       node_layer=string
           Node layer
           Vector  features  can have category values in different layers. This number determines
           which layer to use. When used with direct OGR access this is the layer name.
           Default: 2

       from_layer=string
           From layer number or name
           Vector features can have category values in different layers. This  number  determines
           which layer to use. When used with direct OGR access this is the layer name.
           Default: 1

       from_cats=range
           From category values
           Example: 1,3,7-9,13

       from_where=sql_query
           From WHERE conditions of SQL statement without ’where’ keyword
           Example: income < 1000 and inhab >= 10000

       to_layer=string
           Layer number or name
           To layer number or name
           Default: 1

       to_type=string[,string,...]
           To feature type
           Options: point, line, boundary
           Default: point

       to_cats=range
           To category values
           Example: 1,3,7-9,13

       to_where=sql_query
           To WHERE conditions of SQL statement without ’where’ keyword
           Example: income < 1000 and inhab >= 10000

       arc_column=name
           Arc forward/both direction(s) cost column (number)

       arc_backward_column=name
           Arc backward direction cost column (number)

       node_column=name
           Node cost column (number)

DESCRIPTION

       v.net.distance finds the nearest element in set to for every point in set from.

NOTES

       These  two  sets are given by the respective layer, where and cats parameters. The type of
       to features is specified by to_type parameter. All from features are points.  A  table  is
       linked to output map containing various information about the relation. More specifically,
       the table has three columns: cat, tcat and dist storing category  of  each  from  feature,
       category of the nearest to feature and the distance between them respectively. Furthemore,
       output map contains the shorest path between each cat, tcat pair.  Each  path  consist  of
       several  lines.  If  a  line is on the shorest path from a point then the category of this
       point is assigned to the line. Note that every line may contain  more  than  one  category
       value  since a single line may be on the shortest path for more than one from feature. And
       so the shortest paths can be easily obtained by querying lines with corresponding category
       number.
       The  costs  of  arcs  in  forward  and  backward direction are specified by arc_column and
       arc_backward_column columns respectively. If arc_backward_column is not  given,  the  same
       cost is used in both directions.

       v.net.distance  will  not  work  if  you are trying to find the nearest neighbors within a
       group of nodes, i.e. where to and from are the same set of nodes, as the closest node will
       be  the  node  itself  and  the result will be zero-length paths. In order to find nearest
       neighbors within a group of nodes, you can either loop through each node  as  to  and  all
       other  nodes  as  from or create a complete distance matrix with v.net.allpairs and select
       the lowest non-zero distance for each node.

EXAMPLES

   Shortest path and distance between school and nearest hospital
       Find shortest path and distance from every school to the nearest  hospital  and  show  all
       paths.

       Streets  are  grey  lines,  schools are green circles, hospitals are red crosses, shortest
       paths are blue lines:

       # connect schools to streets as layer 2
       v.net input=streets_wake points=schools_wake output=streets_net1 \
             operation=connect thresh=400 arc_layer=1 node_layer=2
       # connect hospitals to streets as layer 3
       v.net input=streets_net1 points=hospitals output=streets_net2 \
             operation=connect thresh=400 arc_layer=1 node_layer=3
       # inspect the result
       v.category in=streets_net2 op=report
       # shortest paths from schools (points in layer 2) to nearest hospitals (points in layer 3)
       v.net.distance in=streets_net2 out=schools_to_hospitals flayer=2 turn_layer=3

   Distance between point source of pollution and sample points along streams
       Example with streams of the NC sample data set.

       # add coordinates of pollution point source of pollution as vector
       pollution.txt:
       634731.563206905|216390.501834892
       v.in.ascii input=pollution.txt output=pollution
       # add table to vector
       v.db.addtable map=pollution
       # add coordinates of sample points as vector
       samples.txt:
       634813.332814905|216333.590706166
       634893.462007813|216273.763350851
       634918.660011082|216254.949609689
       v.in.ascii input=samples.txt output=samples
       # add table to vector
       v.db.addtable map=samples
       # connect samples and pollution to streams
       v.net -c input=streams points=samples output=streams_samples \
                operation=connect node_layer=3 threshold=10 \
       v.net -c input=streams_samples points=pollution
                output=streams_samples_pollution operation=connect \
                node_layer=4 threshold=10
       # check vector layers
       v.category input=streams_samples_pollution option=report
       Layer/table: 1/streams_samples_pollution
       type       count        min        max
       point          0          0          0
       line        8562      40102     101351
       boundary       0          0          0
       centroid       0          0          0
       area           0          0          0
       face           0          0          0
       kernel         0          0          0
       all         8562      40102     101351
       Layer: 3
       type       count        min        max
       point          3          1          3
       line           0          0          0
       boundary       0          0          0
       centroid       0          0          0
       area           0          0          0
       face           0          0          0
       kernel         0          0          0
       all            3          1          3
       Layer: 4
       type       count        min        max
       point          1          1          1
       line           0          0          0
       boundary       0          0          0
       centroid       0          0          0
       area           0          0          0
       face           0          0          0
       kernel         0          0          0
       all            1          1          1
       # calculate distance between sample points and pollution point source
       v.net.distance input=streams_samples_pollution \
             output=distance_samples_to_pollution from_layer=3 to_layer=4
       # check results
       v.report map=distance_samples_to_pollution@vnettest option=length
       cat|tcat|dist|length
       1|1|100.0|100.0
       2|1|200.0|200.0
       3|1|231.446|231.446

SEE ALSO

        v.net.path, v.net.allpairs, v.net.distance, v.net.alloc

AUTHORS

       Daniel Bundala, Google Summer of Code 2009, Student
       Wolf Bergenheim, Mentor
       Markus Metz

       Last changed: $Date: 2015-12-14 13:56:17 +0100 (Mon, 14 Dec 2015) $

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