[GRASS-user] add a centroid in the center of polygon

[Moritz Lennert]

On 28/01/14 11:52, Markus Metz wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Moritz Lennert
>>
>> Personally, I support MarkusN's idea of merging the two, if that's possible
>> from the code point of view. I find it more intuitive to look for a module
>> creating centroids...
>
> IMHO it will be confusing if there is a flag to calculate the center
> of mass, but centroids are then not always the actual center of mass,
> in which case it is safer to assume that centroids are not the center
> of mass.

Well, that's when you come from the GRASS perspective with a very 
specific meaning for 'centroids'. I think for most users centroids are 
the center of mass. So, I'm not sure that this will really be an issue 
of great confusion.

But I won't make an issue out of this. v.centerpoints is already a nice 
solution and I think it should be moved to trunk, although I've stumbled 
on some issues, but I'll file bug reports on those.

Moritz