---
name: "topic_distance"
section: "1grass"
platform: "linux"
package: "grass-doc"
version: "8.4.1-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/topic_distance"
---

# topic\_distance(1grass)

## Topic: distance

| | | |
| --- | --- | --- |
| d.geodesic |  | Displays a geodesic line, tracing the shortest distance between two geographic points along a great circle, in a longitude/latitude data set. |
| d.rhumbline |  | Displays the rhumbline joining two longitude/latitude coordinates. |
| m.cogo |  | A simple utility for converting bearing and distance measurements to coordinates and vice versa. |
| r.distance |  | Locates the closest points between objects in two raster maps. |
| r.grow.distance |  | Generates a raster map containing distances to nearest raster features and/or the value of the nearest non-null cell. |
| r.grow |  | Generates a raster map layer with contiguous areas grown by one cell. |
| v.distance |  | Finds the nearest element in vector map ’to’ for elements in vector map ’from’. |

*See also the corresponding keyword distance for additional references.*

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