creation of polygons from points

Angus Carr apcarr at FLASH.LakeheadU.CA
Wed Sep 27 15:39:18 EDT 1995


It sounds like you want to do Thiessen polygons.
I know they can be done with Arc/Info, but I'm new to GRASS.

On Wed, 27 Sep 1995, Sue Tewalt x6437 wrote:

> Someone posed a question to me about delineating polygons around
> points (sites), sort of splitting the distance between points to create
> a "polygon of influence" of each site. The sites are unequally distributed.
> 
> Would this best be done by converting the sites to a raster and using
> r.neighbors or an r.mapcalc statement to "grow" the site cells?
> 
> Advice would be appreciated--- thanks in advance
> 
> stewalt at ncrds.er.usgs.gov
> 
> 
> 



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