How to split a polyline into points at certain intervals?

Question

I am trying to split a polyline into points with 2m intervals in ArcGIS but I don't have the necessary license. Is there a way that I can do this in QGIS?

Context: I have drawn a hypothetical lake surface based upon a contour line and need to divide it.

cheers

Answer 1

Using the GRASS plugin, you can split lines using v.to.points:

# convert line to points; dmax = distance between points
v.to.points -i -v -t in=osm_road out=osm_road_pts type=line dmax=90

You'll have to import the line layer into GRASS first. That's easy using e.g. v.in.ogr.qgis which accepts a layer which is already loaded into QGIS.