[GRASS5] [bug #3601] (grass) v.to.db: wrong units names

Radim Blazek radim.blazek at gmail.com
Mon Sep 5 10:40:38 EDT 2005


For backward compatibility we must keep all options from
6.0, so you can add more but you must not remove any.

Radim

On 9/5/05, Request Tracker <grass-bugs at intevation.de> wrote:
> this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=3601
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> Subject: v.to.db: wrong units names
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> Platform: GNU/Linux/i386
> grass obtained from: CVS
> grass binary for platform: Compiled from Sources
> GRASS Version: cvs 23.08.05
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> According to well known and accepted convention v.to.db is using wrong unit names. "me" should be "m", "k" -> "km", "h" -> "ha", "f" -> "ft". I don't know about acres. Definitely not "a" though, "a" is for are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are.
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> Although I suppose current short unit names in v.to.db were not intended to be interpreted as official unit names, but I also believe any GIS should follow an official naming convention for area and lenght units. "me" for meters, "k" for kilometers etc. is confusing and not intuitive.
> 
> Maciek
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