[Qgis-user] scaling bug?

[Agustin Lobo]

I agree with Borys, the first thing a GIS user must
know is the projection and datum of his/her data and
the projection and datum in which he/she wants
to set the project's projection. There cannot be
default projection, the diversity is too high.
I think that the way it is now is the "null option",
it's ok as it is.

Agus

> Message: 10
> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:41:18 +0200
> From: Borys Jurgiel <borys at wolf.most.org.pl>
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] scaling bug?
> To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
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> 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.



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