Nikos Alexandris wrote: > Is there a reason why the output of "g.region -cg" (in decimal degrees) is > not the same as the output of "g.region -c" (in D:M:S)? > > The -g switch is there to "print in shell script style". Does the > switch/description imply, necessarily, decimal degrees?
I think it implies that the output is in a format amenable to use by shell scripts. DNS is primarily meant for humans; programs which aren't specifically designed for geography or cartography won't understand DMS, so it will have to be converted, and doing that in a shell script is messy (expr and $((...)) only support integer arithmetic). -- Glynn Clements <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
