Hi Howard, Problem solved:
Segment size: 0.0100 Map units: 0.01 R Segment: 2 L Segment: 1 Also, how I do reply so that my message goes to the mailing list? Thanks and cheers, Percy On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 2:20 AM, hayamaguchi <hayamagu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, Percy. If your map unit is in meters (m) but want your scale bar to > display kilometers (km), one way to do this in Composer would be to set some > parameters in the "Scale bar" dialogue (under the "Item" tab when you have > the scale bar selected). > > Assume that you want your scale bar to show one kilometer only. You can set > the "Segment size (map units)" to be 1000, and the "Map units per bar unit" > to be 1000 as well. Set "1 Right segments" and "0 Left segments." That > should give you a scale bar with one tick equivalent to 1 kilometer in > length. > > Finally, set the "Unit label" to "Kilometer" or "km" or something like that. > > I hope it works for you! > > Howard Yamaguchi > -- > View this message in context: > http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Issue-with-map-units-on-scale-bar-wgs84-prj-qgis-1-6-win-xp-tp6015194p6017698.html > Sent from the qgis-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user