Hi Gerhardus
>I have specified the scale bar in the map composer to have the
following values:
>Segment Size: 0.01
>Map units per bar unit: 0.01
If you want the segment size to equal 100m in the related map, you could
set segment size to 100.
The setting 'map units per bar unit' is if you want to label the scale
bar with a different unit (e.g. set it to 1000 if you have a meter map
and want to label the bar in km).
Regards,
Marco
On 08.03.2012 16:12, Gerhardus Geldenhuis wrote:
Hi
I am a bit confused about the map units referred to in the settings
for the scale bar in the map composer.
On my original field slips I drew the UTM co-ordinates and in a
temporary shape layer I have drawn points to correspond to the UTM
co-ordinates. The field slips are tiff images that I have
georeferenced. I have checked and my project is set to be in UTM:
+proj=utm +zone=35 +south +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +units=m +no_defs
+towgs84=0,0,0
I have specified the scale bar in the map composer to have the
following values:
Segment Size: 0.01
Map units per bar unit: 0.01
So the first bit of confusion is about the segment size(map units) as
I would expect that to be meters, so Segment size should have been 100m...
Secondly and more importantly, the scale bar does not match up with my
temporary shape layer. With the current settings the scale bar should
be roughly a km but it is slightly longer than that. I fairly sure I
am missing something and would appreciate anyone being able to shed
light on these scaling issues.
Regards
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