[GRASS-dev] r.buffer distance overshoot in GRASS 7.0 with geographic coordinates

[Markus Metz]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Andy Wickert <wickert at colorado.edu> wrote:
> Hi developers,
>
> I have just taken a script that uses r.buffer in GRASS 6.4 and moved
> it to GRASS 7.0. I am using geographic coordinates, and in GRASS 6.4,
> r.buffer (as advertised) worked just fine in meters by doing the
> appropriate transformation. However, in GRASS 7.0, the buffer is ~20
> times too wide (a quick guess), which doesn't indicate conversion
> to... well, anything I can think of. The units seem to be working fine
> (km are way bigger than meters), so I'm guessing that something got
> misplaced somewhere in the source and is rescaling everything. Does
> anyone have an idea of what is going on / how to fix it?
>
Fixed in r50792.

Markus M