[GRASSLIST:850] Re: help needed with buffering

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:30:51PM +0200, Moritz Lennert wrote:
> Ambili Sudhi said:
> > hi everyone,
> >
> > plz help me out with this problem:
> >
> > I have a vector map which displays the coastline of a country and I would
> > like to draw a
> > buffering line joining all points which is at a certain distance "d" from
> > the coastline.
> > so given the coastline vector map and the distance "d" is there a command
> > in GRASS which will
> > draw this buffering line around the coast?
> >
> 
> If you are using GRASS5.0, there is no command for creating buffers around
> a vector. You will to use v.to.rast to make your vector map into a raster
> map and then use r.buffer.

v.buffer exists, but is not (yet) integrated:

http://grass.itc.it/outgoing/
-> v.buffer.tar.gz (source code)
-> v.buffer.txt 

We need someone to test it and make it ready for GRASS integration.
 
Markus