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<p>Can QGIS (1.8.0 Mac) rotate the entire view of a project? that is, have north pointing in a direction other than up on the screen and on output? of course, while still allowing adding new layers etc.</p>
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<div class="post-text"><p>Well yes. Basing this on Windows use though. In print composer, once you load your "add new map view" to your print composer there is an option to rotate the view by angles</p>
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<p>I am assuming the functionality is similar on a mac.</p>
<p>Not to sound condescending or anything but draw your maps orientated north south and only rotate to suit fitting pages. It confuses others to have them any other way than north south. </p>
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<td class="comment-text"><div><span class="comment-copy">With apologies, Gerald, in a 3:1 rectangular urban community with grid streets aimed 20° off EW, it's unnatural to show it at that angle. Urban people navigate by streets; I don't know a single person, myself included, who has their GPS set to show N up...</span> – <a href="/users/15872/johnsankey" title="174 reputation" class="comment-user owner">johnsankey</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><span title="2013-03-11 16:25:53Z" class="relativetime-clean">Mar 11 at 16:25</span></span></div></td>
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<td class="comment-text"><div><span class="comment-copy">I've got print composer to work as you show, but what I want to do is to rotate the screen view then crop to a rectangle that is about 5% of the area of the base layers I get from CanVec. I'm only interested in my study area, not the whole city.</span> – <a href="/users/15872/johnsankey" title="174 reputation" class="comment-user owner">johnsankey</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><span title="2013-03-11 16:28:06Z" class="relativetime-clean">Mar 11 at 16:28</span></span></div></td>
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<td class="comment-text"><div><span class="comment-copy">Ok point accepted. Just my mindset on maps. As for the remainder....did you try the scale of the drawing? baring in mind i am assuming that all the functionalities are similar from mac to pc. zooming in and out on the map using scale will display the relevant sector</span> – <a href="/users/8631/gerald-oreilly" title="665 reputation" class="comment-user">Gerald O'Reilly</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><span title="2013-03-11 16:33:35Z" class="relativetime-clean">Mar 11 at 16:33</span></span><span class="edited-yes" title="this comment was edited"></span></div></td>
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