[Qgis-user] Map composer. Wrong map scale

[Nyall Dawson]

On 14 September 2016 at 17:32, Carlo Cormio <carlo.cormio at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm using QGIS 2.12.3 on Windows 10. After printing a map using QGIS map
> composer, I checked some distances and found that map scale was different
> from the expected one.
> I set ISO A3, portrait, as page size. QGIS project has EPSG:3857 (due to the
> use of a google satellite layer), but most of the other layers have
> EPSG:32633. I tell you this in case it could affect prints.
> Map scale in print composer was set to 1:5000, but when I measured distances
> (I also put a scale in the composition) I found it was more or less 1:3500.
> The strange thing is that the ratio between the two scales is 1,41, that is
> exactly ISO A3:A4 ratio.
> What did I do wrong? Is there a setting I missed?

Are you using the OpenLayers plugin?

Nyall


>
> Hope I gave all the necessary information.
>
> Regards,
>
> Carlo
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