[GRASS-user] r.shaded.relief Output Question

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, Micha Silver wrote:

> Ooops, Correction: when azimuth=315 the sun is from the *South* West,
> producing naturally looking relief maps.

Micha,

   You were right the first time. From the manual page, "The azimuth of the
sun in degrees to the east of north (a value between 0 and 360 degrees)."
When the azimuth is 315 degrees the sun is in the northwest.

   It does look better.

Thanks,

Rich