[Qgis-user] geometry attribute units

2014-08-26 Thread john polo
Andre and others, Thanks for your help with this. John ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user

Re: [Qgis-user] geometry attribute units

2014-08-26 Thread Andre Joost
Am 26.08.2014 15:48, schrieb SIT delle Riserve Naturali di Legambiente Sicilia: But before you must be sure that layer and project have equal GCS !!! Good Luck! If you disable On-the-fly-reprojection, you will not have a project CRS anymore. Greetings, André Joost _

Re: [Qgis-user] geometry attribute units

2014-08-26 Thread SIT delle Riserve Naturali di Legambiente Sicilia
But before you must be sure that layer and project have equal GCS !!! Good Luck! Tata Livreri Il 25/08/2014 15:05, Carlos Cerdán ha scritto: Just a little correction: geometry is not calculated in units of the layer, but in units of the project. Be sure that "on the fly" reprojection is disa

Re: [Qgis-user] geometry attribute units

2014-08-25 Thread Carlos Cerdán
>> > The perimeter is calculated in units of the layer. If that has degrees > (like EPSG:4326), the perimeter result is surely nonsense. > You have to reproject your datasource to a projected CRS that uses metres, > feet or miles to get a useful result. > > > Just a little correction: geometry is n

Re: [Qgis-user] geometry attribute units

2014-08-22 Thread Andre Joost
Am 22.08.2014 23:27, schrieb john polo: Hi, I have a polygon that I am trying to measure the perimeter for. I used the Export/Add geometry columns function and a column was thus added. The value in the column has a value that I don't understand, mostly because I don't know what unit it used for t

[Qgis-user] geometry attribute units

2014-08-22 Thread john polo
Hi, I have a polygon that I am trying to measure the perimeter for. I used the Export/Add geometry columns function and a column was thus added. The value in the column has a value that I don't understand, mostly because I don't know what unit it used for the calculation. The perimeter would p