[GRASS-user] Map Units

[Hamish]

Kurt Springs wrote:
> Is there a conversion for map units into meters or
> kilometers?  I ask because I wanted to create some buffers
> but the values to be assigned are in map units.

If you do "g.proj -p" you will see a PROJ_UNITS section with a meters:
line containing the multiplier.

r.buffer has a built-in units= option to take care of this for you,
v.buffer does not (yet).


Hamish