Measure Line

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Author Name: Antoine Lucas (Antoine Lucas)
Original Redmine Issue: 5972

Redmine category:gui
Assignee: Magnus Homann

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Hey Folks,

In the current version (1.8) the measure line tool misses a huge feature which is using a user defined datum/ellipsoid. In QGIS General Preferences, you can select a lot of datum but all of them are hard-coded. I'd like to see a user defined option or adding all of the IAU (International Astronomy Union) which includes Mercury, Mars, Venus, the Moon, Jupiter and Saturn and their respective moons and so one. In the current situation, if your project CRS is in Lon/Lat, values from Measure line will be wrong. The easiest way would be adding a user defined ellipsoid for distance calculation.

Thank you guys.

A.

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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Please change the title of this ticket to something more meaningful, otherwise it will never catch the necessary attention.

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• operating_system was changed from All to
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Author Name: Magnus Homann (@homann)

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• fixed_version_id was changed from Version 1.8.0 to Version 2.0.0
• assigned_to_id was configured as Magnus Homann

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Author Name: Magnus Homann (@homann)

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What would the layer CRS be in the case ewhen working on the moon? A custom CRS?

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Author Name: Magnus Homann (@homann)

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You can set your own ellipsoin now in Options -> Map tools. You should also set the project projection to the same ellipsoid

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• status_id was changed from Feedback to Closed