[GRASS-user] How to find out an angle between to points on the map (for r.plane, r.lake)

[Michael Barton]

Dylan,

If I remember, your patch is to d.measure? We don't use any of the old  
interactive xterm commands. In fact, you can't use them anywhere  
except in an xterm.

Michael
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On Feb 29, 2008, at 9:34 AM, Dylan Beaudette wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu 
> > wrote:
>>
>> On Feb 28, 2008, at 6:32 PM, grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:17:17 -0800
>>> From: Dylan Beaudette <dylan.beaudette at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] How to find out an angle between to points
>>>      on the  map (for r.plane, r.lake)
>>> To: grass-user at lists.osgeo.org
>>> Message-ID: <200802281617.17608.dylan.beaudette at gmail.com>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15"
>>
>>>
>>> On Thursday 28 February 2008, Philipp Steigenberger wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>> I want to work with r.plane and r.lake to get simulate floodings
>>>> in DTMs.
>>>>
>>>> In the section of interest there is a river which runs from about
>>>> SSW to
>>>> NNE. For r.plane I need the
>>>> azimuth. Is there a tool in GRASS which tells me the angle between
>>>> two
>>>> points I mark on the map like I can measure in between two points
>>>> with
>>>> d.measure?
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>> Well of course I had to go and try this out.
>>>
>>> attached is a patch (against todays SVN) to optionally print the
>>> bearing
>>> between clicks.
>>>
>>> Dylan
>>
>> In the new wxPython GUI, the measure tool prints bearing as well as
>> distance between click points.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>
> Thanks for the update. I don't regularly use either of the GUI and did
> not know about this feature. Does the patch that I submitted interfere
> with this functionality? I think that it would be useful to have this
> functionality in the old style monitors as well.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dylan