[Qgis-user] NewbieQ: Measurement tool weirdness?

[Dan Lyke]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 22:22:47 +0100
Goyo <goyodiaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Which projection are you using for the project? I get the correct
> numbers in meters using the same projection as in the layer (EPSG:
> 2226).

Bingo! My project defaulted to WGS84. Set Settings->Project Properties
to EPSG:2226 and it works as expected (though I haven't figured out how
to get feet rather than meters yet, but I've always got Google for
that).

Thanks, Goyo!

Dan