[Qgis-user] measuring tool in error?

[Mats Elfström]

Hi Jim!

I see from the scale bar that your project is set to use degrees as
distance unit.
This also affects the measuring tool.
Note though that the header displays Segments (degrees) no matter what
the actual readout is.

HTH Mats.E

2008/9/15 Magnus Homann <magnus at homann.se>:
> Jim Hammack wrote:
>>
>> Another question regarding 0.11.0-Metis under Slackware 12.1.  When
>> measuring distances, the results are obviously incorrect.  In the screen
>> capture (http://unisips.com/qgis), I have measured from the end of the chain
>> of green points to the coastline (the white line.)  The distance is given as
>> over 227,000 degrees - clearly wrong.  Shapefiles are geographic (lat/lon)
>> in NAD83:
>>
>> +proj=longlat +ellps=GRS80 +datum=NAD83 +no_defs
>>
>> I just started using qgis and am extremely happy with it.  I'm relatively
>> new to GIS in general, so I'm not sure if I've found a bug or if I'm doing
>> something wrong.  Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Did you have on-the-fly projection set?
>
> Magnus
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