Lat-Long is not good to do distance measurements!

Why don't you reproject your lines in a "metric" projection system and
check the distances again.

On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 14:03 +0100, Michael Misun wrote:
> hello everybody!
> i have a little problem:
> i want to set vertices on lines in a specified space (e.g. 2 km) in a lat 
> long coordinate system.
> i tried it with "v.to.points -vi .... dmax=0.03" and it works. the problem 
> is, that in the equatorial zone the space between the new added points is 
> about 1,7 km but up to the polzones the spacing is rather smaller and about 
> 600 m!
> can anybody help me with this problem? a want to have an equal space for all 
> vertices on my polylines
> 
> michael
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