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NAME

m.measure - Measures the lengths and areas of features.

KEYWORDS

miscellaneous, measurement

SYNOPSIS

m.measure
m.measure --help
m.measure [-g] coordinates=east,north[,east,north,...] [units=string] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]

Flags:

-g
Shell script style
--help
Print usage summary
--verbose
Verbose module output
--quiet
Quiet module output
--ui
Force launching GUI dialog

Parameters:

coordinates=east,north[,east,north,...] [required]
Coordinates
units=string
Units
Default: location map units
Options: miles, feet, meters, kilometers, acres, hectares

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DESCRIPTION

m.measure provides the user with a way to measure the lengths and areas of lines and polygons. Areas can be stated in acres, hectares, square miles, square meters and square kilometers.

AUTHORS

Glynn Clements
Some updates by Martin Landa, CTU in Prague, Czech Republic

Derived from d.measure by James Westervelt, Michael Shapiro, U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory

Last changed: $Date: 2011-11-08 13:24:20 -0800 (Tue, 08 Nov 2011) $

SOURCE CODE

Available at: m.measure source code (history)

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