[GRASSLIST:8178] Re: Cut a polygon (Area/boudary) into two?

[Stephan Holl]

Hello Phillip, 

On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 11:56:51 -0500 "Phillip J. Allen"
<paallen at attglobal.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have an area vector layer and a want to draw a line across it and
> cut it into two sperate polygons.  How do I do this? 
> 
> I know it's a silly question but must say that I amost exclusively
> have only ever used Grass for raster manaipulations.  I normaly use
> ArcGis for vectors.  Now that Grass has the new vector format I think
> I might be able to get more use from it with vectors.

Try
v.digit [1]

or the digitize-module for GRASS-vectors in Quantum GIS [2].

Best
	Stephan

[1]: http://grass.itc.it/grass61/manuals/html61_user/v.digit.html
[2]: http://www.qgis.org
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