[GRASS-user] r.report units in LatLong location

[Hamish]

Gordon Keith wrote:

> I'm running r.report and specifying units=me in a Lat-Long location but the 
> values it returns appear to be in square degrees not square meters.


dumb question: the location knows it is supposed to be lat/lon, right?


GRASS> g.region -p
projection: 3 (Latitude-Longitude)
...
GRASS> g.proj -p
-PROJ_INFO-------------------------------------------------
name       : Latitude-Longitude
datum      : wgs84
towgs84    : 0.000,0.000,0.000
proj       : ll
ellps      : wgs84
-PROJ_UNITS------------------------------------------------
unit       : degree
units      : degrees
meters     : 1.0



?
Hamish



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