[GRASS-user] units for dmax,dmin in v.distance

Moritz Lennert mlennert at club.worldonline.be
Fri May 13 00:53:37 PDT 2016


On 13/05/16 07:04, Bartolomei.Chris wrote:
> Quick question: Does anyone know what the units are when using dmax
> and dmin options in v.distance? I have a lat/lon map ... map units
> are degrees. The man page says it OUTPUTS in meters for lat/lon maps,
> but does it use meters for INPUTS or degrees for lat/lon maps? The
> man page doesn't say...

Just did a little test in a lat-long location: it's meters. For two 
points, about 1 degree apart, you need a dmax of about 100,000...

Moritz


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