[Qgis-user] Advance Digitising Tools- compass bearings

[Richard Greenwood]

The "Azimuth and Distance Plugin" might meet your needs. It accepts
bearings/azimuths from north increasing clockwise.

On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 7:50 PM Philip Ryan via QGIS-User <
qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> I am trying to digitise a series of old gold lease "portion plans"
> produced in the 1880s in Australia by a mining surveyor using a compass and
> chain. The data for each gold lease includes a table of  1) compass
> bearings in degrees and 2) distance measurements in links (0.2 m) for each
> vertex of the lease polygon (mostly a rectangle or trapezoid but sometimes
> more complex).
> The Advance Digitizing Tools would seem to be ideal for this data except
> for the angle measure (a) which I can't input as a compass bearing (0-360
> deg). The current settings with 90 deg E as the zero makes conversion of
> compass bearings very tedious.
> Is it possible to change the angle variable (a) to a compass bearing?
> Regards,
> Phil Ryan
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Richard W. Greenwood
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