Re: [Qgis-user] Which settings for mesuring tool?

2015-05-18 Thread Raymond Nijssen
Hi Joris, The (Spherical) Mercator projection has huge disturbances in size the further you get from the equator. Try usiing the national projection for Portugal? Good luck, Raymond On 17-05-15 21:41, Joris Hintjens wrote: Hello I have 2 point in Portugal my project CRS is pseudo Mercator

[Qgis-user] Which settings for mesuring tool?

2015-05-17 Thread Joris Hintjens
Hello I have 2 point in Portugal my project CRS is pseudo Mercator (EPSG 3857) When I create a buffer of 30 km around my points layer cars is also EPSG 3857), I get Two nice circles (layer also CRS 3857). When i measure the circles, they are 45 km in diameter. What can be wrong? What settings s