topic_distance(1grass)

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✨💖 Topic: distance 💖✨

okay bestie, welcome to the GRASS User's Manual — we're in topic_distance(1grass) territory and it's giving "everything that measures how far apart two things are" 🦋 this whole page is literally just a cute little roundup of the modules that live under the distance umbrella, so let's get into it 👑

🌸 The Modules 🌸

  • d.geodesic — draws a geodesic line, which is the actual shortest distance between two geographic points along a great circle, inside a longitude/latitude data set. it's giving ✈️ shortest-path realness.
  • d.rhumbline — displays the rhumbline connecting two longitude/latitude coordinates. same constant-bearing energy the whole way, no cap 🧭
  • m.cogo — a simple little utility that converts bearing + distance measurements into coordinates, and does the reverse too. both directions, she does it all 💅
  • r.distance — finds the closest points between objects living in two raster maps. so like, "who's nearest to who" but for rasters 🎀
  • r.grow.distance — generates a raster map holding the distances to the nearest raster features, and/or the value of the nearest non-null cell. two-for-one, iconic ✨
  • r.grow — generates a raster map layer where contiguous areas have grown by one cell. just one cell, bestie, it's a slow and steady queen 🐌👑
  • v.distance — for every element in vector map from, it finds the nearest element in vector map to. it's a matchmaking icon fr fr 💘

also!! there's more where that came from — see also the corresponding keyword distance for additional references 🔥

okay so if none of these are hitting, go check the keyword index, the topic list is not the whole story bestie 🙈

Main index | Topics index | Keywords index | Graphical index | Full index

these indexes are your besties when you're lost, use them 💜

and that's the whole vibe check 🫶 this page straight from the GRASS 8.5.0 Reference Manual — © 2003-2026, all the love to the GRASS Development Team for keeping this thing alive for literal decades, they ate and left no crumbs 💖✨🌸 go touch some raster data, ily, mwah 🎀

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