[GRASS-user] Mileage

[Moritz Lennert]

On 15/01/14 10:30, Frank Broniewski wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I'm looking for a tool / workflow on how I can create mileage points
> basing on a track. I hope that's the right vocabulary here, but I'll
> describe what I want anyway ;-)
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> I have a bicycle track and I want to get the points after a specified
> (cumulated) distance - say you start at (an artificial) 0 starting
> point and now I want a point on the track every 1000m or so. So you'll
> get a point after 1000m, 2000m, 3000m and so on just until the track
> ends.
>
> Is there a tool with which I can achieve what I want? Or do I have to
> dive into the Python interface to do this programatically?

What you are speaking about is called a "Linear Reference System", and 
GRASS has the v.lrs.* suite of tools to deal with that.

Check this tutorial to begin: 
http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/lrs.html

Moritz