[GRASS-user] calculate distances on road map between points

hy,
I would like to calculated the distances between points.

I am doing it with the following script which reads coordinates of the points form two files (produced with v.report), uses v.net.path to create the shortest path and then v.patch to produce a table with all distances of al nodes.


cat coordTempFile1 | while read line1; do

xcoor1=${line1 …

ycoor1=${line1 …

cat coordTempFile2 | while read line2; do

xcoor2=${line2 …
ycoor2=${line2 …

echo “$inputRoadLayer $xcoor1 $ycoor1 $xcoor2 $ycoor2” | v.net.path $input out=newpathTemp --o dmax=12000
g.copy vect=newpathTemp,newpath

echo “UPDATE newpath SET fcat = $nodeName1”| db.execute
echo “UPDATE newpath SET tcat = $nodeName2”| db.execute

if [ $firsttime -eq 1 ];
then g.copy vect=newpath,“$output”
g.remove vect=newpath
echo “I have created a new path”;
else
v.patch -a -e input=newpath out=“$output” --o;
g.remove vect=newpath
echo “I have added path to collection”;

fi
done
firsttime=0
done

the I would use v. report to get a text file with all distances.
It works fine for a small number of nodes, for a larger number it stops after about 8000 calculations.
But anyway, maybe somebody can give me a hint of how to do that in a smarter way?

many thanks
dziadgba