[Qgis-user] it's posible to select units for scale bar?

[Zoltan Szecsei]

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.
>>
>>
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