[Qgis-user] Measurement tool

[Randal Hale]

In File -> Properties -> General - are your measurements set to the 
proper distance/Area/ellipsoid? Sometimes that catches me off guard when 
I forget.

Randy

On 11/2/18 8:36 AM, Josh Hull wrote:
> 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.
>
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