[GRASS-user] perpendicular segments to a line

[Hamish]

ivan marchesini wrote:
> Dear all,
> does someone know if there's a simple way to create perpendicolar
> segments to a lines (equispaced along this line)???
> like this...
> 
> |   |   |    |    |
> -------------------
> |   |   |    |    |
> 
> I have had a look to v.lrs.XXX but I have got some problems to
> understand the needed parameters.. also looking at the papers from
> Radim didn't help me...
> what I need is probably a simple tutorial or something similar...
> I mean.. if someone can help me with this topic I can write a wiki
> page on this...
> but at the moment I can't understand wich can be the simpler way to
> solve this problem...
> v.segment?
> v.split?
> v.to.points?
> v.lrs.XXX?


m.cogo might help as part of a script,

Description:
 A simple utility for converting bearing and distance measurements to
 coordinates and vice versa. It assumes a cartesian coordinate system


Hamish