[GRASS-dev] v.clean meters against feets

Markus Neteler neteler at osgeo.org
Mon Sep 22 08:55:01 PDT 2014


On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Markus Metz
<markus.metz.giswork at gmail.com> wrote:
> The threshold must always be in meters, also if the location's units
> are not meters, because G_area_of_polygon() is used to calculate area
> sizes which always returns square meters. This was wrong in the manual
> of v.clean, fixed in r62047,8 (trunk, relbr70).

Thanks for the clarification. I'd suggest to then also fix the
parameter description since "map units" may be ambiguous in some
cases:

threshold=float[,float,...]
  Threshold in map units, one value for each toolDefault: 0.0[,0.0,...])

markusN


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