[GRASS5] Re: [bug #2936] (grass) d.barscale doesn't work (bis)

[Hamish]

> > Via Grass set up:
> >
> > unit: meter
> > units: meters
> > meters: 1.0
> >
> > Automatic, from EPSG 2180:
> >
> > unit: metre
> > units: metres
> > meter: 1
> >
> 
> Wow. What a long-standing bug you found---this has been in the
> automatic  location generating code in r.in.gdal for 4 years and was
> propagated into  the gproj library in 5.7. It should of course be
> meters: 1, not meter: 1.
> 
> I have fixed in CVS. Just goes to show how little-used PROJ_UNITS is I
> suppose.


does "unit: metre" vs "unit: meter" make a difference to anything?


can "meters: x" be set so it can used in Lat/Lon locations for scaling?
(realizing it will only be accutate on one axis)
1852.0*60



Hamish