d.where - GRASS manual
Author: GRASS Development Team
Description: d.where: Identifies the geographic coordinates associated with point locations given in display coordinates.
Keywords: display, sampling, position, querying

## NAME

d.where - Identifies the geographic coordinates associated with point locations given in display coordinates.

## KEYWORDS

display, sampling, position, querying

## SYNOPSIS

d.where
d.where --help
d.where [-dlwf] [at=x,y[,x,y,...]] [input=name] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]

### Flags:

-d
  Output lat/long in decimal degree
-l
  Output lat/long referenced to current ellipsoid
-w
  Output lat/long referenced to WGS84 ellipsoid using datum transformation parameters defined in current location (if available)
-f
  Output frame coordinates of current display monitor (percentage)
--help
  Print usage summary
--verbose
  Verbose module output
--quiet
  Quiet module output
--ui
  Force launching GUI dialog

### Parameters:

at=x,y[,x,y,...]
  Display coordinates to convert
input=name
  File from which to read coordinates ("-" to read from stdin)

## DESCRIPTION

d.where is an interactive program that allows the user, using the pointing device (mouse), to identify the geographic coordinates associated with point locations within the current geographic region in the active display frame on the graphics monitor.

Each mouse click will output the easting and northing of the point currently located beneath the mouse pointer. A mouse-button menu is presented so the user knows which mouse buttons to use. The output is always printed to the terminal screen; if the output is redirected into a file, it will be written to the file as well.

Mouse buttons:

         Left:   where am i
         Middle: draw to/from here
         Right:  quit this

The left mouse button prints the coordinates at the selected point, the middle mouse button allows you to query two points (they are connected by a line for convenience). Use the right mouse button to exit the module.

## NOTES

This program uses the current geographic region setting and active frame. It is not necessary, although useful, to have displayed a map in the current frame before running d.where. The -d flag allows the user to optionally output latitude/longitude coordinates pair(s) in decimal degree rather than DD:MM:SS format. The -w flag is only valid if a datum is defined for the current project's coordinate reference system. If the -f flag is given the x,y frame coordinates of the active display monitor will be returned (as a percentage, 0,0 is bottom left).

## EXAMPLE

Query position in map (North Carolina sample dataset):

    d.rast elevation
    d.where

## SEE ALSO

d.what.rast, d.what.vect, g.region, v.what.rast, v.what.vect

## AUTHORS

James Westervelt,
Michael Shapiro,
U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory

## SOURCE CODE

Available at: d.where source code (history)

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