[Qgis-user] Problem with geometry functions ($area, xmax)

[Nyall Dawson]

On 3 Mar 2016 12:18 AM, <Fuenfer-Koenigstein.Benjamin at swm.de> wrote:
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> Dear List Members,
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> I have a problem with labeling polygon-features using expressions. I want
to create different label-classes depending on the area of the geometries
(cities, villages, etc.). In most cases, this works quite well but in some
cases I get weird effects as some labels disappear on certain scale-levels
or get placed on parts of the geometries that don’t really make sense.
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> Looking for a reason for that behavior, I found out that
geometry-functions deliver very different values depending on the current
scale level. For getting some examples, I labeled one feature with the
following expression:
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> 'xmax: ' + to_string(format_number(x_max($geometry), 0)) +' m; ' + 'area:
'+ to_string(format_number(to_real($area),0)) + ' m2'
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> results:
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> On scale 1:50,000: 'xmax: 4,479,481 m; area: 232,526,142 m2'
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> On scale 1:100,000: 'xmax: 4,479,481 m; area: 5,343,813 m2'
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> On scale 1:800,000: 'xmax: 4,479,431 m; area: 4,885,325 m2'
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> I can send screenshots if needed.
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> With ‘identify features’ tool, I get an area of 232,528,728 square
meters, which suggests that $area at scale 1:50,000 is almost correct.
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> General info: I’m working with QGIS 2.14, geometries come from a
PostGIS-server, geometries and project use CRS DHDN / Gauss-Kruger zone 4
(EPSG:31468), the features I want to label are multipart polygons (I get
the same effects using non-multipart features).
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> Does anyone have an idea if I may have missed some settings that cause
the mentioned effects? Or may it be a bug in the geometry functions?

Yes - turn off the auto simplification for the layer under the "layer
properties" - "rendering" tab.

Nyall
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> Thanks a lot for any help!
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> Best regards
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> Benjamin Fünfer-Königstein
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> S-IP-AN-TG Techn. Geschäftsfelder
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