gazebosim / gz-common

An audio-visual library supports processing audio and video files, a graphics library can load a variety 3D mesh file formats into a generic in-memory representation, and the core library of Gazebo Common contains functionality that spans Base64 encoding/decoding to thread pools.

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Clarify units for the DEM classes #595

Closed Ryanf55 closed 7 months ago

Ryanf55 commented 7 months ago

📖 Docs Improvement

Summary

Avoid users asking whether the height and elevation functions are the same
Match common conventions like in GDAL to refer to things in "raster" coordinates with "pixels" indicating each point on a DEM
Reference: https://gdal.org/tutorials/raster_api_tut.html

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[ ] Signed all commits for DCO
[ ] Added tests
[ ] Updated documentation (as needed)
[ ] Updated migration guide (as needed)
[ ] Consider updating Python bindings (if the library has them)
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