[Qgis-user] qwt

2020-06-07 Thread Christophe Gusthiot
Hi, I developped a plugin for the city of Lausanne on QGIS 2.18, and used qwt5 to implement an elevation graph, which works quite well. Now that a want to migrate my plugin to QGIS3, and knowing that qwt5 is linked to PyQt4, I'm not able to find which module to use in my Python code, or even

[Qgis-user] Measuring Tool Discrepancy

2020-06-07 Thread Stewart Holt
Working with a project in EPSG 3857 (Pseudo Mercator, Google Maps or USGS Topo) when using the measuring tool for distance the Cartographic distance and Ellipsoidal distance differ greatly. I assume that cartographic distance is a simple calculation using plane coordinates which have been projected

Re: [Qgis-user] Measuring Tool Discrepancy

2020-06-07 Thread Håvard Tveite
Pseudo Mercator (or Web Mercator) is a projection that is not suitable for distance (or area) measurements. So the discrepancies are expected. For a short explanation, see for instance https://gis.stackexchange.com/a/14532 or wikipedia. Håvard On 07.06.2020 20:13, Stewart Holt wrote: > Working