
NAME
v.net.visibility - Visibility graph construction.
KEYWORDS
vector, path, visibility
SYNOPSIS
v.net.visibility
v.net.visibility help
v.net.visibility input=name output=name [coordinate=x,y[,x,y,...]] [vis=string] [--overwrite] [--verbose] [--quiet]
Flags:
- --overwrite
- Allow output files to overwrite existing files
- --verbose
- Verbose module output
- --quiet
- Quiet module output
Parameters:
- input=name
- Name of input vector map
- output=name
- Name for output vector map
- coordinate=x,y[,x,y,...]
- One or more coordinates
- vis=string
- Add points after computing the vis graph
DESCRIPTION
v.net.visibility computes the visibility graph of a vector
map containing lines, areas (boundaries) and points. The visibility
graph is the graph where the nodes are the end point of the lines,
boundaries or simply the points. There is an edge between two nodes
if they are 'visible'. Two nodes are visibible if there is no segments
in between them, i.e. the edge doesn't intersect any line or boundary
in the vector map. This is useful to compute the sortest path in a
vector map from any two points. To do this, first you need to compute
the visibility graph and from it compute the shortest path using
v.net.path or d.path.
IMPORTANT : the algorithm doesn't work well with intersecting lines
(that includes overlapping)
If you compute a shortest path after computing the visibility graph you
will notice that this path might go through a vertix of a line. If this
is not wanted you might to run the map through v.buffer first
whith a small value. Example:
v.buffer input=map output=bufferedmap buffer=1 type=point,line,area,boundary
The first argument is the input map. It supports lines, boudaries (so areas)
and points. For the algorithm to work lines and boundaries must not be
intersecting (that includes overlapping).
The result map containing the visibility graph is given in the output map.
If you need to add additional points to compute a shortest path between them
afterwards you can use the coordinate parameter.
coordinate=25556200,6686400,25556400,6686600
where 25556200,6686400 are the coordinate of the first point and 25556400,6686600
are the coordinates of the second point. Of course you can give as many points as
you want. They will be added to the visibility graph and edges from them will be
computed. You can always add those points after computing the visibility graph.
Simply use the vis parameter. The input will be the original vector map,
the vis will be the computed visibility graph and the output the new visibility
graph which will be the vis + the new points given with coordinate (edges will
be computed as well).
v.net.visibility input=map vis=vis_map output=new_vis_map coordinate=25556200,6686400,25556400,6686600
EXAMPLE 1
A simple example showing how to use the module
v.net.visibility input=lines output=graph
d.vect graph
d.vect lines col=red
EXAMPLE 2
An example on how to use v.buffer with the module
v.buffer input=lines output=buffered_lines buffer=1
v.net.visibility input=buffered_lines output=graph
d.vect graph
d.vect lines col=red
EXAMPLE 3
An example on how to use the coordinate parameter. This will compute the
visibility graph of the vector map lines with the point 2555678,6686343
v.net.visibility input=lines output=graph coordinate=2555678,6686343
d.vect graph
d.vect lines col=red
EXAMPLE 4
An example on how to use the coordinate parameter with the vis parameter.
Here the vector map graph is computed then a new visibility graph is computed
from it with the point 2555678,6686343 extra
v.net.visibility input=lines output=graph
d.vect graph
d.vect lines col=red
v.net.visibility input=lines vis=graph output=new_graph coordinate=2555678,6686343
d.erase
d.vect new_graph
d.vect lines col=red
EXAMPLE 5
An example for connections of points (Spearfish):
v.net.visibility input=archsites output=graph
g.region vect=archsites
d.mon x0
d.vect graph
d.vect archsites col=red
KNOWN BUGS
In some cases when 3 points or nodes are collinear, some wrong edges are added.
This happens only really rarly and shouldn't be a big problem.
When two points have the exact same x coordinate and are visible, some wrong
edges are added.
SEE ALSO
d.path,
v.net,
v.net.alloc,
v.net.iso,
v.net.salesman,
v.net.steiner,
v.to.db
AUTHOR
Maximilian Maldacker
Mentor: Wolf Bergenheim
Last changed: $Date: 2009-04-15 15:20:12 -0700 (Wed, 15 Apr 2009) $
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