[Qgis-user] QGIS "Near"

[Micha Silver]

On 05/27/2010 12:13 AM, whollycow wrote:
> Is anyone aware of a function equivalent to "Near" in ArcGIS? (see 
> http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.3/index.cfm?TopicName=Near_(Analysis) 
> <http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.3/index.cfm?TopicName=Near_%28Analysis%29> 
> for reference) I have been searching all day and haven't come across 
> anything quite like it. It seems like such basic functionality I would 
> be surprised if someone hasn't already coded a solution.

The GRASS module v.distance should do what you want (available in QGIS's 
GRASS toolbox). You'll probably also need the v.db.addcol module to 
prepare relevant columns in the first point vector's attrib table for 
the feature_id, x, y, dist, etc. of the nearest features in the second 
vector.

-- 
Micha
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