[Qgis-user] Measuring line length while drawing

[Nick Hopton]

Jakob Lanstorp-3 wrote
> 
> Is there any way of measuring the line length on the fly while drawing the
> line?
> 
> I have a starting point and need to draw say a 1,234 km long vector
> line on top of a raster map in lat long degrees.
> 
> Are there other alternatives?
> 

Long distances and lat/lon? The alternative might be to use Google Earth.
Select the line drawing tool and in the box that pops up click the
"Measurements" tab and then select your units of distance. Then click on
your starting point and draw a short line. Then pick up the end of the line
and move it. As you do this you will see that the reported line length
changes. When you've finished adjusting the line click "OK", then save the
line as a KML file and load it into QGIS.

Horrible really.

Nick.



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