[GRASS-user] Move points to nearest feature in a different layer

[Daniel Victoria]

I've done it using v.distance. It can output the x and y coords of the
nearest feature (check upload option). So then I just created a new
point vector with the coords given by v.distance

Cheers
Daniel

2010/3/1 "António M. Rodrigues" <amrodrigues at fcsh.unl.pt>:
> Dear GRASS users,
> I'm having some problems trying to find a way to snap/move all points from
> one layer to the nearest node in another layer.
> I found that with v.distance, I can find distances to all nodes in the
> desired layer (the information is in the output window, although I haven't
> figured out yet how to manipulate this).
> Also, v.edit has a move and a snap option, although I believe the module
> expects some input like coordinates, not the name of another layer.
> So, I'm guessing that the solution will probably involve working with these
> two funcions, but I haven't figured out how
> Perhaps I'm just looking in the wrong place and there is a function in GRASS
> that performs this "snap to another layer" in one go.
> I'm sorry if this is kind of a beginner question...
> Thanks for any help.
> António
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