d.rhumbline(1grass)

Usage

d.rhumbline

d.rhumbline --help

d.rhumbline coordinates=lon1,lat1,lon2,lat2 [line_color=name] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]

Keywords

display, distance, rhumbline

Overview

A rhumbline (loxodrome) is a line following a constant angle of the compass (i.e., a line of constant direction). It crosses all meridians at the same angle, i.e. a path of constant bearing. d.rhumbline displays the rhumbline joining any two user-specified points in the active frame on the user’s graphics monitor. The named coordinate locations must fall within the boundaries of the user’s current geographic region.

The user has to specify the starting and ending longitude/latitude coordinates of the rhumbline and (optionally) the color in which the rhumbline will be displayed; in this case, the program will run non-interactively.

Examples

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
d.rhumbline coordinates=55:58W,33:18S,26:43E,60:37N \
  line_color=yellow
# show additionally 10 degree grid
d.grid 10

Rhumbline (loxodrome)

Notes

This program works only with longitude/latitude coordinate system.

Source code

Available at: d.rhumbline source code (history)

Accessed: Monday Feb 24 17:50:26 2025

Releases

10 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 9 times.

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