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# Topic: distance

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

*See also the corresponding keyword for additional references:*

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