[QGIS-Developer] Zoom to Scale Plugin - Should we include it on qgis.org?

[Nyall Dawson]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 at 05:37, C Hamilton <adenaculture at gmail.com> wrote:
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> We have written a plugin that fixes the scale of the QGIS canvas to match the integral size of EPSG:3857 map server tiles. This way there is no degradation of the images by transformation. This has some similarities to the QGIS 2 plugin called Tile Map Scale Plugin which was never updated for QGIS 3.

How is this different to the built-in "Tile Scale" panel? Can you clarify?

Nyall

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> This only works with EPSG:3857 projections. I wish I could figure out a way to also match an EPSG:4326 tile cache to the canvas scale size, but I cannot use the map scale to calculate this because it changes as you move around.
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> Would you be interested in having this plugin added into the QGIS repo? Unlike the Tile Map Scale Plugin ours only has a single toggle button to lock or unlock the QGIS scale to one of the predefined scales.
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> Let me know what you think?
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> Thanks,
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> Calvin
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