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- <h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
- 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.
- <!-- There are 32
- points on the compass (points are roughly 11 degrees 15
- minutes apart). --> <em>d.rhumbline</em> 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.
- <p>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.
- <h2>EXAMPLE</h2>
- <div class="code"><pre>
- g.region vect=world_political -p
- d.mon wx0
- d.vect world_political type=area
- d.rhumbline coor=55:58W,33:18S,26:43E,60:37N lcolor=yellow tcolor=red
- </pre></div>
- <p><center>
- <img src="d_rhumbline.png" border=1><br>
- <i>Rhumbline (loxodrome)</i>
- </center>
- <h2>NOTES</h2>
- This program works only with longitude-latitude locations.
- <h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
- <em><a href="d.geodesic.html">d.geodesic</a></em>
- <h2>AUTHOR</h2>
- Michael Shapiro,
- U.S. Army Construction Engineering
- Research Laboratory
- <p><i>Last changed: $Date$</i>
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