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

Markus Neteler neteler at osgeo.org
Sat May 14 10:13:43 PDT 2016


On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Moritz Lennert
<mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, the code contains the cal to geodesic functions.

I have added a note in the manual page (r68426 trunk and r684267 relbranch70).

Markus


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