[GRASS-dev] v.to.db azimuth from LL

Dylan Beaudette dylan.beaudette at gmail.com
Mon Apr 18 12:29:27 EDT 2011


On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there any reason not to exit with a fatal error if the user tries to
> run v.to.db option=azimuth from a lat/lon location? (the result is
> useless)
>
> an alternative is to use libproj to calculate forward and backward
> azimuth geodesic angles, and send that to two DB columns.  Until that is
> done, I would have it G_fatal_error() at the end of v.to.db's
> parse_command_line().
>
>
> ?,
> Hamish

I think this is a wise decision, until code is in place to handle
lat/lon coordinates.

Dylan


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