Measurement is finding a number that shows the size or amount of something.
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Planar vs geodesic
My understanding is that geodesic is measured on the surface of the ellipsoid and is the always the shortest distance on the earth. Planar is just straight line distance. Is this the correct interpretation?
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Large objects of fixed size that can be used for measure control points
I am looking for some real world objects that has rather large sizes where the exact size is known such they can be used for controlling different implementation of length measurements in GIS application.
The quesstion started from here: Should we…
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Is the Geo URI uncertainty a radius or a diameter?
Uncertainty is inherent in geospatial data... Maybe it's supposed to be obvious, and, some standards forget to define it.
The RFC 5870 — A Uniform Resource Identifier for Geographic Locations ('geo' URI) — has no clue about the uncertainty…
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Why measure line in QGIS result in millimeter?
I am using QGIS 3.4.4 I just want to measure the distance between a tree with its shadow from a raster data, but when i use measure line the result is in millimeter. I just upgrade the software to the newest version, when I used the previous one,…
yennie
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