[GRASS-user] converting contour lines to points

[Benjamin Ducke]

OK, here is mine ;)

I would like to break up a map of contour lines into points.
Since contour lines are essentially just a bunch of nodes
with arcs connecting them, I thought it should be straight-forward
to decompose them. However, v.type refuses to do a line->points
conversion and v.to.points creates new points along the lines.
I just want the points that are already there, only get rid
of the connecting arcs!
I need to conserve the attribute data in the output map.
Is this somehow possible?

Thanks,

Ben


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Benjamin Ducke, M.A.
Archäoinformatik
(Archaeoinformation Science)
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte
(Inst. of Prehistoric and Historic Archaeology)
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