[Qgis-user] scaling bug?

Borys Jurgiel borys at wolf.most.org.pl
Thu Oct 30 09:24:56 PDT 2008


> > But still I don't know what is the "Global Default Projection" setting
> > for? Shoudn't it be connected to the project default projection?
>
> Just to allow the user to make a one-time setting of some projection
> other than WGS84 as the default. Similar to the global projection
> setting for layers that have no projection information.

It's even the same.

> We might 
> consider that each new project should have some projection defined (like
> each new layer), and it need not necessarily be WGS84, as it is now.
> Your suggestion of a "default_project.qgs" should fill the bill. And it
> opens the way for adding other global project definitions it the future.

Yes, I've implemented it at mine by launching the project file at startup and 
it's really comfortable. However it's only a workaround... I still wonder if 
Global Default Projection shouldn't be used also for project projection.

Regards!
B.



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