Convert a spatial (linestring) object to points

The number of points will be double the number of lines with line2points. A closely related function, line2pointsn returns all the points that were line vertices. The points corresponding with a given line, i, will be (2*i):((2*i)+1). The last function, line2vertices, returns all the points that are vertices but not nodes. If the input l object is composed by only 1 LINESTRING with 2 POINTS, then it returns an empty sf object.

line2points(l, ids = rep(1:nrow(l)))

line2pointsn(l)

line2vertices(l)

Arguments

l	An sf object or a SpatialLinesDataFrame from the older sp package
ids	Vector of ids (by default 1:nrow(l))

See also

Other lines: angle_diff(), geo_toptail(), is_linepoint(), line2df(), line_bearing(), line_breakup(), line_match(), line_midpoint(), line_sample(), line_segment(), line_via(), mats2line(), n_sample_length(), n_vertices(), onewaygeo(), points2line(), toptail_buff(), toptailgs(), update_line_geometry()

Examples

l <- routes_fast_sf[2, ]
lpoints <- line2points(l)
plot(l$geometry)
plot(lpoints, add = TRUE)
# test all vertices:
plot(l$geometry)
lpoints2 <- line2pointsn(l)
plot(lpoints2$geometry, add = TRUE)

# extract only internal vertices
l_internal_vertices <- line2vertices(l)
plot(sf::st_geometry(l), reset = FALSE)
plot(l_internal_vertices, add = TRUE)
# The boundary points are missing