[GRASS-user] Points to area workflow [RESOLVED]

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 20 Jul 2019, Micha Silver wrote:

> v.to. lines is *not* what you want. That module takes a polygon and
> converts the boundaries to lines.

Micha,

I wondered about that.

> If you want to go straight from the point coordinates to a polygon, you
> can use the GRASS standard ASCII format and pipe directly to v.in.ascii:
> 
> echo "VERTI:
> B 1 5
>  -123.940000 45.150100
>  -123.940000 45.145400
>  -123.960000 45.145400
>  -123.960000 45.150100
>  -123.940000 45.150100
>  1 1
> C 1 1
>  -123.950000 45.147500
>  1 1" | v.in.ascii input=- output=analysis_region format=standard

Ah, yes! That looks familiar. I should use the standard format and leave the
point format for a cloud of points.

Thanks,

Rich