[GRASS-user] snap point to line/break line at given points

[Daniel Victoria]

Not sure how to split and label the rivers but to snap the point to
the closest river you could use v.distance

Cheers
daniel

http://grass.fbk.eu/grass65/manuals/html65_user/v.distance.html

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Johannes Radinger <JRadinger at gmx.at> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a line-vector (river) and some points on that line. First I am straightening that line with v.generalize (method: boyle). Now, there is the problem that the points are not exactly on the line anymore. So I want to snap (move) the points to the new generalized line again. Which tool is able to do that?
>
> After that I want to split the line at these points and want to give the attribute value to the newly created segments. These segment values should represent the number/value of the upstream point (which was used to split). How can this be done in GRASS?
>
> Do you have any ideas to solve these two problems/challenges?
>
> thank you
>
> /johannes
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