[Qgis-user] Area Measuring Tool enhancements

[Fred LaPlante]

That would work for me.

The Settings|Options|MapTools screen currently allows you to choose 
between Feet or Meters. Unfortunately the english system of  square 
feet|acres|square miles isn't something that is easily converted in you 
head.

I suppose a pulldown would let you switch back and forth quickly perhaps 
so you could easily compare to some written records. But that would 
require more code work from developers than what I proposed.

Fred LaPlante

Andreas Neumann wrote:
> it would even be nicer if the tool would offer a combobox with a unit 
> choice. Because you may want to have the result in square meters, even 
> if the result is a higher number.
>
> Andreas
>
> Fred LaPlante wrote:
>> When the preferred measuring units are set to Feet, the area 
>> measuring tool has a limitation for users with parcel sizes we have 
>> here in my town.  Currently areas of less than 0.01 square miles are 
>> shown in square feet and above that switch to square miles with 2 
>> decimal places shown.
>>
>> I would like to recommend that area measurements stay in square feet 
>> until reaching one acre (43,500sq. ft) and then show acres with one 
>> decimal place until reaching 640 acres then switch to square miles 
>> with one decimal place.
>>
>> Fred LaPlante
>>
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