[Qgis-user] Measurement tool

[Josh Hull]

I'm having problems with the measurement tool. It is giving me an 
inaccurate measurement when I am measuring both area and straight line 
distance. I'm currently running QGIS 3.4 because the problem started in 
3.2.3 and I thought upgrading might solve the issue. I'm running windows 
10, 64bit and installed from the standalone installer. I use shape file 
overlays of property lines that have been rock solid for the past couple 
years. When I measure a 40 acre parcel of land with the area measurement 
tool, QGIS tells me the area is over 83 acres. If I measure a straight 
line distance along the side of a known 40 (it should be 1/4 mile), the 
measurement tool shows .368 miles. I haven't made any changes to the CRS 
and its using WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator. I primarily use the software for 
maps in north central United States.

Any help would be awesome.

-- 
Josh Hull
Hull Forest Products LLC
218-349-9266
www.forest.solutions