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NAME
v.to.points - Creates points along input lines in new vector map with 2 layers.
KEYWORDS
vector, geometry, 3D, line, node, vertex, point
SYNOPSIS
v.to.points
v.to.points --help
v.to.points [-iprt] input=name [layer=string] [type=string[,string,...]] output=name [use=string]
[dmax=float] [--overwrite] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]
Flags:
-i
Interpolate points between line vertices (only for use=vertex)
-p
Use dmax as percentage of line length
-r
Start from the end node
-t
Do not create attribute table
--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
layer=string
Line 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
type=string[,string,...]
Input feature type
Options: point, line, boundary, centroid, area, face, kernel
Default: point,line,boundary,centroid,face
output=name [required]
Name for output vector map
use=string
Use line nodes or vertices only
Options: node, vertex
dmax=float
Maximum distance between points in map units or percentage with -p
Default: 100
DESCRIPTION
v.to.points creates points along input 2D or 3D lines, boundaries and faces. Point features including
centroids and kernels are copied from input vector map to the output. For details see notes about type
parameter.
The output is a vector map with 2 layers. Layer 1 holds the category of the input features; all points
created along the same line have the same category, equal to the category of that line. In layer 2 each
point has its unique category; other attributes stored in layer 2 are lcat - the category of the input
line and along - the distance from line’s start.
By default only features with category are processed, see layer parameter for details.
NOTES
The dmax parameter is the maximum limit but not an exact distance. To place points with exact distance
from the beginning of the vector line the user should use v.segment.
Set layer to -1 to process features from all layers including features without category. Features will be
assigned new unique categories at layer 1. Option layer=-1 should be used to convert boundaries, as in
most of cases boundaries lack category values.
The type parameter is used to control which input vector geometry types to convert into points. Some
caveats to consider about this parameter:
• Points and centroids can be considered as "lines" with only one node. Consequently, the result of
selecting point or centroid as the type parameter is that all points/centroids get written into
the output vector map. The original category numbers of the input points/centroids get written to
the ’lcat’ attribute in layer 2 of the output vector map. All values for along are zero in the
output vector map, as only point geometry was used for input (there is no linear distance to
calculate along, as each point/centroid is the start and end of its own "line").
• Boundaries are treated as lines, with points getting interpolated along the boundary perimeter
according to dmax. If two adjoining polygons share a topological boundary, the boundary only gets
converted to points once.
• If the type parameter is set to area, the boundary of each area is converted to points regardless
of whether or not there is a topological boundary between adjacent areas. In other words, the
common boundary of two adjoining areas, for example, gets converted to points twice. The centroid
is not converted to a point in the output vector for type=area.
The use=vertex option is used to digitize points that fall on the line’s vertices only. Parameter dmax is
ignored in this case. Similarly to use=node when only line’s node are used.
If the -i flag is used in conjunction with the use=vertex option, v.to.points will digitize points on the
line vertices, as well as interpolate points between line vertices using dmax as the maximum allowable
spacing.
Use the -p flag to treat dmax as a percentage of each line length. For example, to get points created
for the beginning, middle and end only, use the -p flag and set dmax so that:
50 < dmax <= 100
Hence, if dmax is between 0.5x and 1.0x the line length, you will always get points created at exactly
the beginning, middle and end of the input line.
Use the -r flag to create points starting from the end node.
EXAMPLE
In this example, the ’railroads’ vector lines map of the North Carolina sample dataset is used to create
points along the input lines:
# The North Carolina data are metric.
# 200m distance for nodes (maximum limit but not an exact distance)
v.to.points railroads output=railroads_nodes use=node dmax=200
# verify the two layers in the resulting map
v.category railroads_nodes option=report
# vector info
v.info railroads_nodes
SEE ALSO
v.segment, v.split, v.to.rast, v.to.db
AUTHOR
Radim Blazek
Updated to GRASS 7 by Martin Landa, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Last changed: $Date: 2017-02-16 06:09:41 +0100 (Thu, 16 Feb 2017) $
SOURCE CODE
Available at: v.to.points source code (history)
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