Meter - Feet Conversion Broken

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Author Name: David A- Riggs - (David A- Riggs -)
Original Redmine Issue: 947

Redmine category:map_legend
Assignee: nobody -

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When changing a project's Map Units from Meters to Feet (or vice versa), the value displayed in the scalebar, and the values given by the distance (ruler) tool are wildly wrong.

1. Create new project with a single layer. Set correct project Projection and Map Units (eg. UTM NAD83).

2. Scale bar read eg. 50 km

3. Measure distance between two points, eg "Segments (in meters)" 88,711.91, total 88.71 km

4. Change Map Units in project Properties to Feet. Hit refresh.

5. Scalebar is same size, now says 9.4697 miles (WRONG: should be ~31 miles)

6. Measure same distance, eg "Segments (in feet)" 89,177.93, total 16.89 mile (WRONG: the displayed number of segments are really meters, the "total" count converts feet to miles, should be converting meters to miles or should be counting feet instead of meters)

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Author Name: Magnus Homann (@homann)

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This is the intended behaviour. It is not meant to perform conversion, but to specify that one unit of the map represent a foot, meter or degree. Mostly used when no projection is appropriate (such as drawing a plan of your house).

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• resolution was changed from to invalid
• status_id was changed from Open to Closed

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Author Name: Anónimo (Anónimo)

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Milestone Version 0.9.2 deleted