[GRASS5] (grass) d.barscale doesn't work (bis)

[Paul Kelly]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Hamish wrote:

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

That would be returned by the function G_database_unit_name().
Grepping in the 5.7/6 tree shows only ps.map using it.
Functions in the gproj library access the value directly from an input 
PROJ_UNITS and it is used in all WKT projection descriptions created by 
GRASS. Sidenote that the WKT format doesn't allow specification of the 
plural of the unit name so you can end up with things like units: foots 
when automatically generating a location.

In 5.4 there is also p.map, i.points3, v.digit, v.out.idrisi, v.import at 
least.

> 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

Maybe. But does it not change depending on where you are standing?

Paul