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  1. <h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
  2. A rhumbline (loxodrome) is a line following a constant angle of the
  3. compass (i.e., a line of constant direction). It crosses all meridians
  4. at the same angle, i.e. a path of constant bearing.
  5. <!-- There are 32
  6. points on the compass (points are roughly 11 degrees 15
  7. minutes apart). --> <em>d.rhumbline</em> displays the
  8. rhumbline joining any two user-specified points in the
  9. active frame on the user's graphics monitor. The named
  10. coordinate locations must fall within the boundaries of the
  11. user's current geographic region.
  12. <p>The user has to specify the starting and ending
  13. longitude/latitude coordinates of the rhumbline and
  14. (optionally) the color in which the rhumbline will be
  15. displayed; in this case, the program will run
  16. non-interactively.
  17. <h2>EXAMPLE</h2>
  18. <div class="code"><pre>
  19. g.region vect=world_political -p
  20. d.mon wx0
  21. d.vect world_political type=area
  22. d.rhumbline coor=55:58W,33:18S,26:43E,60:37N lcolor=yellow tcolor=red
  23. </pre></div>
  24. <p><center>
  25. <img src="d_rhumbline.png" border=1><br>
  26. <i>Rhumbline (loxodrome)</i>
  27. </center>
  28. <h2>NOTES</h2>
  29. This program works only with longitude-latitude locations.
  30. <h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
  31. <em><a href="d.geodesic.html">d.geodesic</a></em>
  32. <h2>AUTHOR</h2>
  33. Michael Shapiro,
  34. U.S. Army Construction Engineering
  35. Research Laboratory
  36. <p><i>Last changed: $Date$</i>