[Qgis-user] North arrow in QGIS

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 2/13/19 9:30 AM, Werner Macho wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> while I see that a lot of "other" GIS Software has its own button for
> north arrows I am against adding a north-arrow button.
> 
> reasons:
> While this is one of the few points which is not intuitive at a first
> glance the user has to learn how to add the north arrow (and learn that
> a north arrow is nothing else than an ordinary image).

To be honest I'm not so much a user of the Layout-part of QGIS, but
shouldn't the a North arrow be an essential property of a map, AND
should the North-arrow not always point to the North of the given crs?

Trying out here in a layout, if I rotate the map 10 degrees, the arrow
image is fixed to top. Or do I miss something, like that you can 'fix an
image to the north' or so?

Another question that pops up: are all crs's always pointing to 0
degrees North? And if not is a crs aware of that?
If so I would opt for either some function to have an intelligent North
Arrow in layouts (which are aware of crs, so rotate with map), and which
can reuse the image dialogs?
Or add such intelligence to the already image props (besides a North
arrow I can think about images of a ground level which always have to be
horizontal or so)?

Sorry for popping up this questions...

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde