[GRASS-dev] barscale in latlong region

[Michael Barton]

I know this has come up before, but I wanted to see if there might be a way
to fix this now.

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.

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 ;-)

Michael
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Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
Director of Graduate Studies
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

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