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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I am the poster of this question and I want to thank all those who took the time to answer it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My problem is not trivial for two reasons:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>I work in the Northern Territory (NT), in Australia. The western part of the NT is in UTM zone 52 and the eastern part in UTM zone 53;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>maps I create often straddle the zone 52/zone 53 boundary and cannot be in m using our standard projections; <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>most baseline GIS work in the Northern Territory is carried out by the Government in ArcGIS. ArcGIS allows to display a scale bar in km on a map in degrees and therefore most map users here expect to have a km scale bar on degrees maps.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I work for a small independent organisation focused on natural resource management. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I decided that our GIS would be entirely based on freeware.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I chose QGIS as our main GIS software.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As I am often expected to emulate ArcGIS, the scale bar issue matters to me. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Now I know that QGIS does not offer the km scale bar possibility offered by ArcGIS.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I will therefore use a work around consisting in creating grids of suitable mesh size (eg 100 km) in both UTM 52 and UTM 53. I will then reproject them in DA94 (the Australian standard degrees CRS) and merge them in GA 94 as a single grid which I will use as a guide to create (approximate) km scale bars in my GDA94 maps. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Philippe<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>