[GRASS-user] Assign attributes of start and enpoints to, connecting lines

[Richard Chirgwin]

On 12/12/10 4:00 AM, grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:
> Message: 4 Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:09:06 +0200 From: Micha Silver 
> <micha at arava.co.il> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Assign attributes of 
> start and enpoints to connecting lines To: Hanlie Pretorius 
> <hanlie.pretorius at gmail.com> Cc: grass-user at lists.osgeo.org 
> Message-ID: <4D039412.3080707 at arava.co.il> Content-Type: text/plain; 
> charset=UTF-8; format=flowed On 12/10/2010 08:19 AM, Hanlie Pretorius 
> wrote:
>> >  Hi Micha,
>> >
>> >  Thanks for the reply.
>> >
>> >  I tried your method using the GUI, and it seems one cannot have a
>> >  from_type of 'line', only of 'point' or 'centroid'.
>> >  
> Yes, you're right. Sorry for misleading you. The 'from' map can be only
> points, so this won't help to get the node labels into the rivers table.
>
Convert the start and end nodes to points using v.to.points, and then 
use v.distance?

Richard