That's it! Thank you! Under "Settings", "Project properties", "General", under "Layer units", the radio button for "Decimal degrees" was active. I changed to "Degrees, minutes, seconds" and it's working the way I want. VERY much appreciated -- jc
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Ramon Andiñach <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure about 1.4, but in 1.6 and above you would do this by having the > project in a geographic CRS, with "on the fly" off. > > Then in the general tab of project properties you can select the unit to show > coordinates in. > > Does that help at all? > > -ramon. > > On 26/09/2011, at 11:06, John Comeau <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm using qgis 1.4.0-enceladus on Debian GNU/Linux, and although the >> release notes specifically state that the coordinates in the status >> bar can be displayed in DMS format (degrees-minutes-seconds) rather >> than the decimal degrees format, I cannot find anywhere online, nor >> within the application, how to accomplish this. Please forgive me if >> the answer is already in the archives, I've searched to the best of my >> ability to no avail. Thank you -- jc >> -- >> John Comeau KE5TFZ [email protected] http://jc.unternet.net/ >> "A place for everything, and everything all over the place" >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > -- John Comeau KE5TFZ [email protected] http://jc.unternet.net/ "A place for everything, and everything all over the place" _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
