On 19 October 2017 at 19:01, G. Allegri <[email protected]> wrote: > Some measurement testing on QGIS 3.0 revealed that > https://issues.qgis.org/issues/13957 issue is still there, and it's quite > subtle because we have very similar elliposid names, with similar > definitions except IGNF:ELG ones have trailing zeros. > > For example WGS84: > > id acronym name radius parameter2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 41 WGS84 WGS 84 a=6378137.0 rf=298.257223563 > 51 IGNF:ELG053 WGS84 a=6378137.0000 rf=298.2572235630000 > > This is quite misleading for the user whene selecting the elliposid for > Measurements. > Anyway, it could be accepted if they both worked but in case ellispoid #51 > is selected two problems appear: > > 1 - the selected ellipsoid is not retained in the dropdown box. If you > reopen project properties "Clarke 1866" is selected instead of "WGS84" > 2 - (maybe related to the latter) measure values are completely wrong > > Everything works fine if "WGS 84" (ellipsoid #41) is selected.
I'm also curious about this - has anyone got any background on how the ellipsoid list has been generated and the rationale behind these inclusions? Nyall _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
