[GRASS-user] re-order boundaries by relative position along polyline

Thomas Adams tea3rd at gmail.com
Tue Apr 7 08:54:55 PDT 2015


Adrien,

Thank you! I'll give it a try...

Tom

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Adrien André <adrien.andre at onf.fr> wrote:

> Dylan, Tom,
>
> not about the main question, but to complete Tom's answer:
>
> I had once to vectorize a raster stream network according to flow
> direction.
> You can find here the Python script i wrote:
> https://github.com/adrienandrem/r.to.vect.dir
>
> I hope this helps.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Adrien
>
>
> Le 05/04/2015 14:48, Thomas Adams a écrit :
> > Hi Dylan!
> >
> > (I'm about to start a new position — more on that later). This may help…
> >
> > I had a problem somewhat analogous to this a little while ago, where I
> > needed to create a text file that, among a couple of other things,
> > needed to identify the 'downstream' pixel for all grid cells within a
> > basin area. I was able to do that with help here, but an issue I had was
> > that the integer IDs needed to be numbered from 0-N in basically
> > upstream to downstream order, but after my GRASS analysis I had IDs with
> > some large number ranging to some other very large number for the IDs
> > and the 'downstream IDs' (with values skipped and not in order). I got
> > help writing a Perl script that uses hashes for a lookup table to relate
> > the old ID to the new ID.
> >
> > Perhaps you could do something like this, starting with a new vector map
> > (copy) where you could simply update the attributes using an SQL query?
> > Some coding would be needed, obviously…
> >
> > Just my 2 cents…
> >
> > Cheers!
> > Tom
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Dylan Beaudette
> > <dylan.beaudette at gmail.com <mailto:dylan.beaudette at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi,
> >
> >     Once again, I am reminded that complex spatial analysis in other
> >     software
> >     can usually be reduced to a couple of lines of code in GRASS--
> thanks!
> >
> >     Here is a fun question. Suppose you have a set of line segments, or
> >     boundaries that are the result of a digitizing process that generated
> >     segments out of "order":
> >
> >           2             4              1           3
> >     O---------+-----------------+------------+------O
> >
> >     'O' = start / end point
> >     '+' = vertex
> >
> >     ... in this case "order" is associated with order in which records
> >     appear
> >     in the attribute table and the order in which segments are drawn on
> the
> >     screen.
> >
> >     Is there a module, or set of modules that could be used to re-order
> the
> >     segments so that the order of records in the attribute table and
> drawing
> >     order is:
> >
> >           1             2              3           4
> >     O---------+-----------------+------------+------O
> >
> >     Note that I do not wan't to shuffle the linkages between geometry and
> >     attributes, rather, I would like to re-order the segments and
> attribute
> >     table according to the linear position within the set of contiguous
> >     boundaries or polyline.
> >
> >     Here is an example set of lines in ASCII format, WGS84 GCS.
> >
> >     ORGANIZATION:
> >     DIGIT DATE:
> >     DIGIT NAME:   dylan
> >     MAP NAME:
> >     MAP DATE:     Thu Apr  2 11:46:34 2015
> >     MAP SCALE:    1
> >     OTHER INFO:
> >     ZONE:         0
> >     MAP THRESH:   0.000000
> >     VERTI:
> >     B  6 1
> >      -118.71960108 36.71846736
> >      -118.71946261 36.71783146
> >      -118.71905508 36.71717314
> >      -118.71863837 36.71610377
> >      -118.71807413 36.71546352
> >      -118.71786286 36.71527706
> >      2     132
> >     B  3 1
> >      -118.7153795 36.73403608
> >      -118.71537992 36.73272737
> >      -118.71538933 36.73177277
> >      2     133
> >     B  3 1
> >      -118.71536851 36.76205202
> >      -118.7153724 36.7609144
> >      -118.71537619 36.75980591
> >      2     150
> >     B  2 1
> >      -118.73128842 36.69749903
> >      -118.73130166 36.69760244
> >      2     175
> >     B  5 1
> >      -118.71538933 36.73177277
> >      -118.7153944 36.73125742
> >      -118.71573607 36.73044156
> >      -118.71618977 36.72875872
> >      -118.71651025 36.72811846
> >      2     581
> >     B  15 1
> >      -118.71651025 36.72811846
> >      -118.71661716 36.72766138
> >      -118.71660977 36.7273294
> >      -118.71645785 36.72668322
> >      -118.71689758 36.7261392
> >      -118.71724087 36.72567564
> >      -118.71747107 36.7248177
> >      -118.71753527 36.72390024
> >      -118.71787045 36.72307308
> >      -118.71797278 36.72237579
> >      -118.71781832 36.72073331
> >      -118.71825483 36.72004703
> >      -118.71908689 36.71948153
> >      -118.71963768 36.71863545
> >      -118.71960108 36.71846736
> >      2     602
> >     B  8 1
> >      -118.7180943 36.70872005
> >      -118.71827421 36.7083356
> >      -118.71841915 36.7080259
> >      -118.7190169 36.70752707
> >      -118.72008403 36.70694237
> >      -118.72042476 36.70636815
> >      -118.72049695 36.70608245
> >      -118.7212077 36.70547966
> >      2     604
> >     B  15 1
> >      -118.7212077 36.70547966
> >      -118.721692  36.70506892
> >      -118.72256889 36.70442599
> >      -118.72372477 36.702873
> >      -118.72417965 36.70213899
> >      -118.72496002 36.70190631
> >      -118.72660809 36.70183505
> >      -118.72765407 36.70118732
> >      -118.72831767 36.70100376
> >      -118.72866574 36.7007615
> >      -118.72887421 36.70026501
> >      -118.72998965 36.69849669
> >      -118.73066541 36.69798083
> >      -118.73118943 36.69770441
> >      -118.73130166 36.69760244
> >      2     609
> >     B  8 1
> >      -118.7153867 36.75138736
> >      -118.7153804 36.7500365
> >      -118.7153634 36.7464107
> >      -118.7153465 36.742785
> >      -118.7153296 36.7391593
> >      -118.71533791 36.73753527
> >      -118.7153438 36.7363838
> >      -118.7153795 36.73403608
> >      2     610
> >     B  13 1
> >      -118.71786286 36.71527706
> >      -118.71763335 36.71507451
> >      -118.71748992 36.71480774
> >      -118.71754381 36.71369999
> >      -118.71750723 36.7131568
> >      -118.71786592 36.71228789
> >      -118.71745106 36.71129755
> >      -118.71716489 36.71079564
> >      -118.71709787 36.71043286
> >      -118.71712906 36.71006868
> >      -118.71740871 36.70978478
> >      -118.717644  36.709369
> >      -118.7180943 36.70872005
> >      2     612
> >     B  7 1
> >      -118.71411256 36.77582538
> >      -118.71445897 36.77550631
> >      -118.71478471 36.77508229
> >      -118.7149828 36.77446623
> >      -118.71532537 36.77406797
> >      -118.7153339 36.7717931
> >      -118.71534777 36.76808916
> >      2     613
> >     B  3 1
> >      -118.71534777 36.76808916
> >      -118.71536   36.7645405
> >      -118.71536851 36.76205202
> >      2     622
> >     B  4 1
> >      -118.71537619 36.75980591
> >      -118.7153848 36.7572883
> >      -118.7153973 36.7536622
> >      -118.7153867 36.75138736
> >      2     623
> >
> >
> >     I have been able to convert these segments into polylines, however,
> I am
> >     not sure how one would go about computing the position along the
> >     polylines.
> >     Perhaps a linear referencing system?
> >
> >
> >
> >     Thanks!
> >     Dylan
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> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Thomas E Adams, III
> > 718 McBurney Drive
> > Lebanon, OH 45036
> >
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> >
> >
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