[GRASS-dev] adding units and vertical datum metadata to raster maps

[Michael Barton]

This makes perfect sense. I didn't think it through.

Michael


On 5/21/07 1:28 PM, "Paul Kelly" <paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 21 May 2007, Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>> Any chance that vertical units will show up in g.proj? That's where your
> 
> Vertical units apply only to a particular map in a particular mapset, not
> to all the mapsets in a location like horizontal units (i.e. the
> location's co-ordinate system do). And it's perfectly valid to have
> different elevation maps in different units in the same mapset and to
> have to convert between them (e.g. ellipsoidal height from GPS and geoid
> height above sea level). I can't really see how the location co-ordinate
> system definition could easily be extended to support units for the 3rd
> dimension :/
> 
> Paul
> 

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