Thanks Anna and Doug,
I did not expect it to work (thought it would be useful if it did). Rather I was surprised by the fact that r.walk DID run and that it gave very odd results.
Adding to the docs is a good idea. Even better would also to have a friction map with a negative value (min<0) raise an error in r.walk, saying that all values in a friction map must be ≥ 0
Michael
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On Nov 29, 2023, at 1:00 PM, grass-user-request@lists.osgeo.org wrote:
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 10:17:19 -0500
From: Anna Petr??ov? <kratochanna@gmail.com>
To: Michael Barton <Michael.Barton@asu.edu>
Cc: GRASS developers <grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org>, GRASS user list
<grass-user@lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] cost surface with negative friction odd
behavior
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=“utf-8”I think r.walk was not written for negative friction and while I imagine
some small (in absolute sense) negative values may work, your negative
values are pretty extreme, meaning the resulting travel time through a cell
would be negative. That can cause all kinds of issues in the algorithm. So
I would say friction should not be negative. I am not sure I would check
that in the code, because you would need to check that for each cell and I
think it’s unnecessary overhead. Maybe just adding a note to documentation
may be enough. I haven’t looked into the code itself, so this is just my
guess.Anna
On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 5:48?PM Michael Barton via grass-user <
grass-user@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: