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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>+1 <br><br>Mike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>MapServer-dev <mapserver-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Seth G via MapServer-dev <mapserver-dev@lists.osgeo.org><br><b>Reply-To: </b>Seth G <sethg@geographika.co.uk><br><b>Date: </b>Wednesday, September 16, 2026 at 1:57 AM<br><b>To: </b>Tamas Szekeres <szekerest@gmail.com>, MapServer Devs <mapserver-dev@lists.osgeo.org><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [MapServer-dev] Motion: adopt RFC-142: Geodesic Scalebar Measurement<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>+1 thanks Tamas. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(as an aside, QGIS also seems to default to centre of the map for scale: <a href="https://docs.qgis.org/3.44/en/docs/user_manual/introduction/qgis_configuration.html#scale-calculation-method">https://docs.qgis.org/3.44/en/docs/user_manual/introduction/qgis_configuration.html#scale-calculation-method</a>)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div id=sig62266145><p class=MsoNormal>Seth<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Sep 15, 2026, at 11:15 AM, Tamas Szekeres via MapServer-dev wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt' id=qt><p class=MsoNormal>Dear PSC,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I would like to motion to adopt <span class=qt-gmail-il>RFC</span>-<span class=qt-gmail-il>142</span>: Geodesic Scalebar Measurement. Based on the <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-dev/2026-May/017361.html">discussion of this RFC</a> I've simplified the solution by removing the MEASURE parameter (therefore the RFC has been renamed) and that the result represents horizontal local scale at the map center (not bound to the actual scalebar location). According to Even's suggestion, if the project has a CRS we use the geodesic scale, otherwise fallback to cartesian method.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The modified RFC can be found here: <a href="https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-142.html">https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-142.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The corresponding PR with the suggested changes: <a href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/7507/changes">https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/7507/changes</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Starting with my +1,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tamas<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>MapServer-dev mailing list<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:MapServer-dev@lists.osgeo.org">MapServer-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-dev">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-dev</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________ MapServer-dev mailing list MapServer-dev@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-dev <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>