#1300: WxGUI measure tool gives wrong results
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Reporter: marisn | Owner: martinl
Type: defect | Status: assigned
Priority: blocker | Milestone: 6.4.1
Component: wxGUI | Version: svn-releasebranch64
Keywords: measure tool | Platform: MSWindows Vista
Cpu: Unspecified |
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Comment(by martinl):
Replying to [comment:9 hamish]:
> thanks, that passes the 'd.grid 5000' test in spearfish,simple_xy loc'ns
+ latest 6.5svn. no difference with using the 'constrain' tick box in
prefs AFAICT.
backported in r45891
> lat/lon is still reporting meaningless results, in grass7 it should use
m.measure to do the calc so geodesic distance is automatically used if
needed.
probably we should warn user about that. Would be
{{{
Warning: Measuring reports meaningless results for LL projection (geodetic
distance ignored). Check future versions.
}}}
be OK?
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