[GRASS-user] Profile from a random path

[Maciej Sieczka]

Luca Casagrande wrote:

> I have got a path described by a vector line; i'd like to create the elevation profile for that line without
> using GUI.
> 
> I thought about this:
> 1) splitting the line in points by a certain distance,

v.to.points

> 2) create an ascii file with the coordinates of each points

v.out.ascii

> 3) Use r.profile as described in the example 3 to create the profile for the ascii file.

pipe the v.out.ascii output into r.profile

Maciek