[QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-user] New Features in Shape Tools 3.2.0

[Nyall Dawson]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 at 23:01, Helmut Kudrnovsky <hellik at web.de> wrote:
>
> Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote
> >>[...]
> >>Caris LOTS: 14.737 km^2
> >>ArcMap:     14.727,446 km^2
> >>MapInfo:    14.727,352 km^2
> >>GeoMedia:   14.726,443 km^2
> >>Planimeter: 14.722,522 km^2
> >>QGIS 3.2:   14.652,181 km^2
> >>QGIS 2.8:   14.652,181 km^2
> >>[...]
> >>My suspicion is that the geodesic algorithm used by QGIS (and apparently
> > GRASS) is to blame here.
> >
> > a quick check in GRASS 7.7.svn shows :-)
> >
> > |m2|km2|
> > |14718097678,673|14.718,097679|

Ok, with https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/8090 QGIS now exactly
matches GRASS' value (14.718 km2).

(For reference -- not a regression, this bug has been around since
ellipsoidal calculations were introduced to QGIS!)

Nyall