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The output is a vector map with 2 layers. Layer 1 holds the category of the input features; all points created along the same line have the same category, equal to the category of that line. In layer 2 each point has its unique category; other attributes stored in layer 2 are lcat - the category of the input line and along - the distance from line's start.

By default only features with category are processed, see layer parameter for details.

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Set layer to -1 to process features from all layers including features without category. Features will be assigned new unique categories at layer 1. Option layer=-1 should be used to convert boundaries, as in most of cases boundaries lack category values.

The type parameter is used to control which input vector geometry types to convert into points. Some caveats to consider about this parameter:

• Points and centroids can be considered as "lines" with only one node. Consequently, the result of selecting point or centroid as the type parameter is that all points/centroids get written into the output vector map. The original category numbers of the input points/centroids get written to the 'lcat' attribute in layer 2 of the output vector map. All values for along are zero in the output vector map, as only point geometry was used for input (there is no linear distance to calculate along, as each point/centroid is the start and end of its own "line").
• Boundaries are treated as lines, with points getting interpolated along the boundary perimeter according to dmax. If two adjoining polygons share a topological boundary, the boundary only gets converted to points once.
• If the type parameter is set to area, the boundary of each area is converted to points regardless of whether or not there is a topological boundary between adjacent areas. In other words, the common boundary of two adjoining areas, for example, gets converted to points twice. The centroid is not converted to a point in the output vector for type=area.

The use=vertex option is used to digitize points that fall on the line's vertices only. Parameter dmax is ignored in this case. Similarly to use=node when only line's node are used. To filter only starting/ending nodes use use=start/end.

If the -i flag is used in conjunction with the use=vertex option, v.to.points will digitize points on the line vertices, as well as interpolate points between line vertices using dmax as the maximum allowable spacing.

Use the -p flag to treat dmax as a percentage of each line length. For example, to get points created for the beginning, middle and end only, use the -p flag and set dmax so that:

 50 < dmax <= 100

Use the -r flag to create points starting from the end node.

EXAMPLES

Points along the input lines

# The North Carolina data are metric.
# 200m distance for points (maximum limit but not an exact distance)
v.to.points input=railroads output=railroads_points dmax=200

# verify the two layers in the resulting map
v.category input=railroads_points option=report

# vector info
v.info map=railroads_points

Extract nodes as points

v.to.points input=railroads output=railroads_nodes use=node

Extract starting/ending nodes as points

v.to.points input=railroads output=railroads_start use=start

v.to.points input=railroads output=railroads_end use=end

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Available at: v.to.points source code (history)

Latest change: Thursday Jan 26 14:10:26 2023 in commit: cdd84c130cea04b204479e2efdc75c742efc4843

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