m.distance - was Re: [GRASS-dev] Re: 7.x Status Update

Markus Neteler neteler at osgeo.org
Tue Sep 30 08:02:45 EDT 2008


On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
...
>> > d.measure - Duplicated in GUI
>
> also have a look at the swig/python/examples/m.distance python script
> for a fully non-interactive version.

Would it be possible to get bearing added to
swig/python/examples/m.distance
?

The m.cogo module assumes a cartesian coordinate system which
isn't always sufficient... since m.distance already measures along
the geodesic, it would be cool to also the the bearing.

thanks
Markus


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