Hi Philippe
In the nightly build, it is possible to have a composer scale bar in km
for maps in degrees. The scalebar however only shows the scale near the
bottom left of the composer map (the scale is not constant in maps in
degrees, as others already noted).
Regards,
Marco
Am 16.04.2013 2
I am the poster of this question and I want to thank all those who took the
time to answer it.
My problem is not trivial for two reasons:
- I work in the Northern Territory (NT), in Australia. The western
part of the NT is in UTM zone 52 and the eastern part in UTM zone 53;
-
I think the issue here is the need to have a scale bar in feet/meters and as
Carlos noted a LatLon grid, in other commercial software you can do this
very simple since you can choose the units of the scale bar and the
representation of the grid
I agree the correct way to do it would be to use a pr
Should't be enough plotting in UTM with grid and overlying also Latlong
grid?
Il giorno 16/apr/2013 15.46, "Carlos Cerdán" ha
scritto:
> Hi Barend:
>
> You're right, Lat-long maps are just a plane representation of another
> representation of Earth as an ellipsoid and fails on poles.
>
>> why
Hi Barend:
You're right, Lat-long maps are just a plane representation of another
representation of Earth as an ellipsoid and fails on poles.
> why not use UTM or another projection to start with?
Because some times we need simple maps, for example touristic maps of small
areas where you can
Dear Carlos,
I understand that you think the combination is useful, but my point is
actually that the scale bar is NOT useful because it is plain wrong, it
does not even approximate distances in many places in the map! Try
wrapping you head around the fact that the North Pole (a single point of
l
What I do is:
1. Start a map with CRS in Lat-Long (EPSG 4326).
2. Create a new printing design and insert the map. This is map 0.
3. Take note about the scale of this map.
4. Return to the working area and change the CRS to UTM 17s (this is my
zone - you select your zone)
5. Return to the created
I guess that QGIS allows displaying a scale bar in km on a map in degrees.
But how do you do it??
Philippe
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