topic_distance(1)

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✨ topic_distance(1) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the GRASS GIS User's Manual 💖 this page is literally the topic_distance topic, and it's giving "everything you ever needed to know about distance in GRASS" energy. no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

topic_distance — the distance topic of the GRASS GIS User's Manual 🦋

💫 Topic: distance 💫

here's the whole squad of distance-related modules, bestie. every single one, no skips 👑

  • d.geodesic — displays a geodesic line, tracing the shortest distance between two geographic points along a great circle, in a longitude/latitude data set. it's giving ✨shortest path✨ and honestly? iconic.
  • d.rhumbline — displays the rhumbline joining two longitude/latitude coordinates. a whole different vibe from the geodesic, fr fr.
  • m.cogo — a simple utility for converting bearing and distance measurements to coordinates and vice versa. lil guy, big job 🫶
  • r.distance — locates the closest points between objects in two raster maps. it's literally the matchmaker of raster maps 😭
  • r.grow.distance — generates a raster map containing distances to nearest raster features and/or the value of the nearest non-null cell. two things in one, main character energy 🔥
  • r.grow — generates a raster map layer with contiguous areas grown by one cell. just one cell. growth mindset 💅
  • v.distance — finds the nearest element in vector map to for elements in vector map from. it's giving "who's closest to who" and honestly same 🧚

🔍 See also 🔍

see also the corresponding keyword distance for additional references. iykyk 🌈

📚 Indexes 📚

  • Main index
  • Topics index
  • Keywords index
  • Graphical index
  • Full index
a lil reminder from your girl: this is a topic page, so it's a curated list, not a full command reference. each module has its own page for the deep lore 💜

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 this was written by the © 2003-2025 GRASS Development Team for the GRASS GIS 8.4.2 Reference Manual, running on GRASS 8.4.2. go slay your distance calculations, ily, bye 💖✨🦋

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