[Qgis-user] Scale bar on degrees with project CRS on ED50 UTM31

[Otto Dassau]

Hi,

you could try to set Layer Units in menu Settings -> Project Properties ->
General tab to Meters. Usually this should be done automatically, based on
the units of the CRS you select. Maybe that doesn't work?

Regards
Otto 

Am Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:13:48 -0500
schrieb Gerardo Jimenez <gejst5 at hotmail.com>:

> 
> The same happened to me in a win stadnallone install on xp, vista and 7
> and ubuntu. Main thing, scale bar seem not to work well on 1.72.
> Nevertheless, I check if I coul use the measure tool and make a
> reprojection of som layers in UTM wgs84  14N and both procedures work ok.
> Then, Qgis recognizes my  CRS, but the scale bar does not work. I get
> around this by getting rid off the scale bar. Not a total solution but it
> works. and the only thing is to get use to work without the scale bar in
> the data frame.
> 
> Hope it helps
> 
> Gerardo Jiménez Delgado
> Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas
> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
> Ciudad Universitaria s/n
> Coyoacan 04510
> Mexico City
> Mexico
> 
> 56 22 95 16
> 
> > Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:51:27 +0100
> > From: alobolistas at gmail.com
> > To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> > Subject: [Qgis-user] Scale bar on degrees with project CRS on ED50 UTM31
> > 
> > Using 1.7.2, the scale bar is on degrees while project and
> > layer CRS are projected. See screenshot here:
> > https://sites.google.com/site/filestemp2/home/scalebar.jpeg?attredirects=0
> > 
> > Agus
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