[GRASS-user] units used in r.stream.distance

[Margherita Di Leo]

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
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> No it depends on the respective command. Eg:
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> http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/v.distance.html#notes
> "In lat-long locations v.distance gives distances (dist, from_along,
> and to_along) not in degrees but in meters calculated as geodesic
> distances on a sphere. "
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> Regarding r.stream.distance one would need to check the source code
> (and then document it).
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Thank you. Jarek (the author of the module) confirmed that the distance is
in meters. I'm expanding the documentation accordingly,

Thanks,
madi

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