[GRASSLIST:4709] Re: maximum size of polygon

[William L. Baker]

Orkum,

r.le.patch does it, in order to calculate one of 
the shape indices.  But, the value is simply used
internally and not part of output.  Yep, it is 
very computationally expensive, but does run for
most maps in a few seconds.  If you have programming
skill, you could find this in the code for r.le.patch,
stick in a write statement and have it printed out.

Bill B.

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric G. Miller [mailto:egm2 at jps.net]
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 9:25 AM
To: grass_list
Subject: [GRASSLIST:4708] Re: maximum size of polygon


On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 10:47:48AM +0300, orkun wrote:
> hi
> is there a way (module or command) to calculate maximum size (length)
of 
> a polygons.

None that I'm aware of.  If I understand correctly, that could be a very
computationally expensive function.  You want something that will find
the maximum span across a polygon? A straight line length? or the
longest path taking the shortest route?

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