[Qgis-user] Layout question

C Hamilton adenaculture at gmail.com
Tue Nov 20 08:08:31 PST 2018


Michael,

I can't answer your whole question but just as a note, use the rotation
ability of the QGIS 3 Shape Tools plugin. It will do a geodesic rotation
and not be confused by units in degrees which may be why you are getting it
skewed when you try to rotate.

Calvin

On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 10:30 AM Michael Jabot <Michael.Jabot at fredonia.edu>
wrote:

> I have been using the Equal Earth projection for an example for schools.
>
> Is there a way in QGIS to shift the view so that a particular polygon of
> interest is centered in the layout?
>
> What I am trying to do is get a “head onto view” of this polygon instead
> of having it skewed. I tried rotation but it rotated along the wrong axis
>
> Thank you for any ideas and again I apologize for these dumb questions
>
> Mike
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