[GRASSLIST:839] Re: help needed with buffering

[Moritz Lennert]

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.

Moritz