[FWTools] Polyline to Polygon operation

[Stefan Muthers]

Hello,

Joe Larson schrieb:
> Does anyone have a method to go from polyline to polygon with 
> shapefiles? Maybe there's a work-around by converting to another format 
> and back as well.

using grass gis it is possible with a combination of v.clean (option 
break and snap) and v.type (line to boundary).

http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/v.clean.html
http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/v.type.html

regards

   Stefan