But what about putting horizontal scale bars up the lefthand side of the window, length dependent on latitude (and assuming North-up) ?

OK - it's late Friday afternoon, and I am not in a serious mood :-)

Y'all have a good weekend.
Z



On 2012/09/21 16:48, 欧阳乐岩 wrote:
You are right, it doesn't make much sense. The solution is as Frank Sokolic explained, to choose a projected coordinate system as the project CRS and QGIS will transform all the layers in this CRS and use meters for distance.

Regards,

Leyan

On 09/21/2012 10:39 PM, Nick Hopton wrote:
Would a scale bar in metres (or in feet, yards, cubits, &c.) make any sort of
sense on a map that uses a geographic coordinate system? I would have
thought that scale distortion would make such an entity very misleading.

N.



--
View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/it-s-posible-to-select-units-for-scale-bar-tp5003492p5003583.html
Sent from the Quantum GIS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
_______________________________________________
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


--

===========================================
Zoltan Szecsei PrGISc [PGP0031]
Geograph (Pty) Ltd.
P.O. Box 7, Muizenberg 7950, South Africa.

65 Main Road, Muizenberg 7945
Western Cape, South Africa.

34° 6'16.35"S 18°28'5.62"E

Tel: +27-21-7884897  Mobile: +27-83-6004028
Fax: +27-86-6115323     www.geograph.co.za
===========================================

_______________________________________________
Qgis-user mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user

Reply via email to