[GRASS-user] Survey descriptions to GRASS vector

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Dwight Needels <NEEDELS at translucida.com> wrote:
> Is there a straightforward way to encode a survey description of a parcel in
> a text file that can then be imported into GRASS as a vector? The type of
> description I am talking about looks something like this (where the numbers
> are degrees/.minutes/seconds)...
>
> "Beginning at [a defined point], thence running North 40-35-00 East 1,125.90
> feet to a point, thence turning and running South 01-01-13 West 288.89 feet
> to a point, thence turning and running South 58-18-45 West 179.33 feet to a
> point, [...] , thence turning and running South 83-41-12 West 36.69 feet to
> the point of beginning."

m.cogo comes to mind:
http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/m.cogo.html

for turning this into to true coordinates, then perhaps v.in.ascii.

Markus