[Qgis-developer] Snapping tolerance

Alexander Bruy alexander.bruy at gmail.com
Sat Dec 13 00:04:05 PST 2014


+1 for map units, as this removes confusion

2014-12-13 9:35 GMT+02:00 Matthias Kuhn <matthias.kuhn at gmx.ch>:
> +1 for map units. Makes much more sense to me and should confuse less.
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> On 12/13/2014 07:04 AM, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
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> I think using the projects units makes more sense, Using the layer units
> makes things confusing I think, think of having one layer in degrees and
> another in meters.
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> So +1 for swapping to mean project units.
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> On Sat Dec 13 2014 at 4:02:10 PM Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi
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>> Recently I have been working on some snapping improvements (more about
>> that later) and I have found one slightly surprising thing about the
>> configuration of tolerances: if the tolerance unit is set to "map units", it
>> actually means "layer units" - i.e. units in layer's CRS and not in
>> project's CRS. Recently there was even a bug report filed for that:
>> https://hub.qgis.org/issues/11634
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>> I would like to change the behavior so that the "map units" in snapping
>> config dialog would mean units in project's CRS. Would there be any
>> objections?
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>> Alternatively we could just rename "map units" to "layer units" to make it
>> less surprising (and eventually add a third option to use project's units).
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>> Cheers
>> Martin
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