Re: [GRASS-dev] geodesic distances for measuring and buffers, even when working in planar coordinate system ? [was: Re: [GRASS-user] What distance is being measured and used for buffers ?]

2012-09-12 Thread Markus Metz
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Moritz Lennert mlenn...@club.worldonline.be wrote: On 09/09/12 16:34, Markus Metz wrote: On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Moritz Lennert mlenn...@club.worldonline.be wrote: On 07/09/12 09:05, Markus Metz wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Moritz

Re: [GRASS-dev] geodesic distances for measuring and buffers, even when working in planar coordinate system ? [was: Re: [GRASS-user] What distance is being measured and used for buffers ?]

2012-09-10 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 09/09/12 16:34, Markus Metz wrote: On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Moritz Lennert mlenn...@club.worldonline.be wrote: On 07/09/12 09:05, Markus Metz wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Moritz Lennert mlenn...@club.worldonline.be wrote: On 01/09/12 18:02, Moritz Lennert wrote:

Re: [GRASS-dev] geodesic distances for measuring and buffers, even when working in planar coordinate system ? [was: Re: [GRASS-user] What distance is being measured and used for buffers ?]

2012-09-09 Thread Markus Metz
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Moritz Lennert mlenn...@club.worldonline.be wrote: On 07/09/12 09:05, Markus Metz wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Moritz Lennert mlenn...@club.worldonline.be wrote: On 01/09/12 18:02, Moritz Lennert wrote: Leaving below mail as record of my original

Re: [GRASS-dev] geodesic distances for measuring and buffers, even when working in planar coordinate system ? [was: Re: [GRASS-user] What distance is being measured and used for buffers ?]

2012-09-04 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 01/09/12 18:02, Moritz Lennert wrote: Leaving below mail as record of my original issue, I would to raise the fundamental question of whether it would be feasible 1) to (optionally) provide geodesic instead of planar distances when measuring, even if the location is in a projected coordinate

[GRASS-dev] geodesic distances for measuring and buffers, even when working in planar coordinate system ? [was: Re: [GRASS-user] What distance is being measured and used for buffers ?]

2012-09-01 Thread Moritz Lennert
Leaving below mail as record of my original issue, I would to raise the fundamental question of whether it would be feasible 1) to (optionally) provide geodesic instead of planar distances when measuring, even if the location is in a projected coordinate system. E.g. QGIS provides the