Bug report #20587
Decoration -> Scale Bar uses a misleading planimetric measurement
Status: | Open | ||
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Priority: | Normal | ||
Assignee: | - | ||
Category: | Decorations | ||
Affected QGIS version: | 3.5(master) | Regression?: | No |
Operating System: | Easy fix?: | No | |
Pull Request or Patch supplied: | No | Resolution: | |
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data: | No | Copied to github as #: | 28407 |
Description
The map scale is shown wrongly - 20m instead of 12,4m.
History
#1 Updated by Jürgen Fischer about 6 years ago
- Subject changed from Maßstab wird falsch angezeigt to map scale not shown correctly
#2 Updated by Jürgen Fischer about 6 years ago
- Description updated (diff)
#3 Updated by Jürgen Fischer about 6 years ago
- Description updated (diff)
#4 Updated by Jürgen Fischer about 6 years ago
- Description updated (diff)
#5 Updated by Borys Jurgiel about 6 years ago
- Subject changed from map scale not shown correctly to Decoration -> Scale Bar uses a misleading planimetric measurement
Currently, the scale bar always show planimetric distance. Especially when working in EPSG:4326 and the scale bar is displayed in metres (see also #14185), users may assume the measurement is ellipsoidal, what is not true.
#6 Updated by Borys Jurgiel about 6 years ago
- Affected QGIS version changed from 3.4.0 to 3.5(master)
- Priority changed from Low to Normal