[Qgis-user] scaling bug?

[Borys Jurgiel]

Wednesday 22 of October 2008 13:29:54 Ľubomír Varga napisał(a):

> What about posibility to set default units globaly, and also to allow
> autodetect feature? (if in first 100 coordinates in input file is no
> coordinate bigger than 360, than it is degrees, else it is default unit =
> meter/feet selected in some autoselect unit dialog)

I was considering it few days ago and now I think it's not the best way. The 
unit is strictly related to the used projection, so I see no sense in 
pre-selecting the unit. We should pre-select the whole projection instead.

When you start QGIS, a new empty project is created and it's initially 
projected always in WGS-84. Then when you load a layer, you can personalize 
QGIS's behaviour related to this layer, but you never can set default 
projection of new project. So in my opinion this is the point we should 
change. I see two solutions:
1) use the 'Global Default Projection' from the Options dialog as initial
   projection of every newly created project
2) provide a skeleton file for newly created project, as it was proposed in
   this topic already

Regards,
B.