Daniel H. Rdoriguez writes:
What is the best way of buffering a polygon or line vector file.
We were able to buffer a site (point) file with s.poly. Is there a command which will buffer a line or a polygon ?
GRASS analysis is performed 99% in the raster realm. Use v.to.rast to convert
lines and polygons ("areas") to raster format, then use r.buffer to do your
buffering. r.poly converts back to vector format, with the -l flag initiating
a smoothing option. Obviously resolution is a very important issue in these
conversions - make sure that yours is appropriate for you data and you
application.
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