[GRASS-user] converting contour lines to points

[Benjamin Ducke]

Well, this seems to work.
Thanks, Maciek.

Maciej Sieczka wrote:
> Benjamin Ducke wrote:
>> 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
> 
> Not necessarily; from the manual:
> "The -v flag is used to digitize points that fall on the line's
> vertices only. dmax is ignored in this case."
> 
> Is that what you need?
> 
> Maciek
> 
> 

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