Make given number of points at evenly spaced on line in QGIS?

Question

I have a shapefile lines representing historical flight paths of aerial photography. I have the number of photos taken for each path and the number of the first and last photo, plus the ID of the flight path. I can do this manually with the "construct points" tool in ArcGIS, Spatial Join and some grunt work but I want to make this an automated process. Task includes:

1. Make points along lines with equal intervals, including both ends, with information on the # of points from the lines shapefile.
2. Get LineID from the lines shp to the pnts shp (Guessing Spatial Join is the only way to go).
3. Allocate photo-numbers to points from only knowing first and last photo-number for each line, and the direction of the line.

If nothing else, getting the points on the lines would be a good start.

Answer 1

In QGIS there is a tool that can create points along a line.

You can find it in the Processing Toolbox under GRASS commands.

Activate the Processing toolbox, if need be:

Open the Processing toolbox:

Activate the advanced interface, if need be:

And then navigate to the GRASS commands, and you will find v.to.points: