Hi Vincent, just FYI, I fixed (and Markus) the problems with units, so you should now be able to use 'metres' as well (but in GRASS 7 only).
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Anna Petrášová <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Vincent, > > > On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Vincent Bain <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Le dimanche 05 janvier 2014 à 08:42 -0500, Anna Petrášová a écrit : >> > >> > Vincent, >> > >> > On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 5:19 AM, Vincent Bain <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi Anna, >> > >> > I just tested on r58611. Unfortunately it fails : >> > >> > >> > could you try m.measure separately? Launch it from gui command line or >> > menu so that you have the interactive adding coordinates from map >> > display. Could you post the result of m.measure with and without -g >> > flag? >> >> Yes, here it is with four points describing a 1 km side square : >> >> m.measure >> coordinates=922000,2106000,923000,2106000,923000,2107000,922000,2107000 >> units=meters >> Length: 3000.000000 meters >> Area: 1000000.000000 square meters >> >> m.measure -g >> coordinates=922000,2106000,923000,2106000,923000,2107000,922000,2107000 >> units=meters >> units=meters,square meters >> length=3000.000000 >> area=1000000.000000 >> >> I actually didn't want you to use the units parameter, this is why you > got reasonable outputs. Without it you would probably get segmentation > fault. I created a ticket for this: > http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/2157 > > Having a closer look at my PROJ_UNITS file, I noticed unit was set to >> "metre" and units was set to "metres". I tried to change these values to >> "meter" and "meters". And now it works just fine. >> > > Yes, that makes sense. I was wondering why do you have metres instead of > meters there? > > >> I can't say when and how one can tweak this variable. >> Do you think this enhancement could be easily backported to 6.4 ? >> > > Unfortunately not. One thing is the GUI part which I would have to write > again for grass 6 because although it looks the same, the code of wxGUI is > quite different. And write it for grass 6 would be more difficult. The > other thing is that m.measure is only a grass 7 module so I don't know > which backend should be used for grass 6. > > Regards, > Anna > > >> Yours, >> V. >> >> >> >
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