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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>I know this has come up before, but I wanted to see if there might be a way to fix this now.<BR>
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I don't work much with latlon locations, but I know that a lot of people do. For large areas especially, it is one of the main ways to manage geospatial data. GRASS has pretty good tools for dealing with latlon and its idiosyncrasies. However, a peculiar gap is that the barscale tool won't work in latlon. Given that I'm told that there are GRASS libraries already in existence to deal with latlon to metric conversions, it seems odd that we can't put a scale on a latlon map. <BR>
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Is this actually a very difficult problem to solve, or just one that no one has yet gotten around to doing--I know that you all have sooo much free time on your hands ;-)<BR>
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Michael<BR>
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School of Human Evolution & Social Change <BR>
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity<BR>
Arizona State University<BR>
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