r.horizon: revert back to positive values only #2955
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Enabling negative angles in r.horizon requires more work, the current simple implementation has problems (e.g. flat areas). Also r.sun doesn't work well with negative horizon values. See #2935 for discussion. For now, reverting back to horizon values >= 0 seems best. Note was added to manual page.