d.geodesic (1)
NAME
d.geodesic - Displays a geodesic line, tracing the shortest distance between two geographic points along a great circle, in a longitude/latitude data set.
KEYWORDS
display, distance, great circle, shortest path
SYNOPSIS
d.geodesic
d.geodesic --help
d.geodesic coordinates=lon1,lat1,lon2,lat2 [line_color=name] [text_color=name] [units=string] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]
Flags:
--help
Print usage summary
--verbose
Verbose module output
--quiet
Quiet module output
--ui
Force launching GUI dialog
Parameters:
coordinates=lon1,lat1,lon2,lat2 [required]
Starting and ending coordinates
line_color=name
Line color
Either a standard color name or R:G:B triplet
Default: black
text_color=name
Text color
Either a standard color name or R:G:B triplet
units=string
Units
Units
Options: meters, kilometers, feet, miles
Default: meters
DESCRIPTION
d.geodesic displays a geodesic line in the active frame on the user's graphics monitor. This is also known as the great circle line and traces the shortest distance between two user-specified points on the curved surface of a longitude/latitude data set. The two coordinate locations named must fall within the boundaries of the user's current geographic region.
OPTIONS
By default black line color and red text color will be used.
By indicating the starting and ending coordinates of the geodesic, the line and its length (by default in meters) are displayed to the graphical output. If the text color is set to none, the great circle distance is not displayed.
EXAMPLE
A geodesic line if shown over the political map of the world (demolocation dataset):
g.region vector=country_boundaries -p
d.mon wx0
d.vect country_boundaries type=area
# show additionally a 20 degree grid
d.grid 20
d.geodesic coordinates=55:58W,33:18S,26:43E,60:37N \
line_color=yellow text_color=red units=kilometers
Geodesic line (great circle line)
NOTES
This program works only in GRASS locations with longitude/latitude coordinate system.
SEE ALSO
d.rhumbline, d.grid, m.measure
AUTHOR
Michael Shapiro, U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory
Last changed: $Date: 2016-12-17 13:29:46 +0100 (Sat, 17 Dec 2016) $
SOURCE CODE
Available at: d.geodesic source code (history)
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