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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=3 face="Times New Roman">Hello. In your last-but-one message there is a missing URL, I think?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=3 face="Times New Roman">Maybe I'm missing something too, but I think this trick might help you:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=3 face="Times New Roman">- decide the scale you want for the final (possibly printed) map. In my example, I have chosen 1:1000.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=3 face="Times New Roman">- create a view, set your feet-based SRS in it (in my example, ESRI:102723) and keep the meter as the map unit (yes, this is a contradiction)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=3 face="Times New Roman">- add your layer to the view. In my example I have added this WMS layer:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=3 face="Times New Roman">server URL: <A href="http://gis1.oit.ohio.gov:80/wmsconnector/com.esri.wms.Esrimap/osip">http://gis1.oit.ohio.gov:80/wmsconnector/com.esri.wms.Esrimap/osip</A>?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=3 face="Times New Roman">layer: CuyahogaCO (which includes the city of Cleveland, OH)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=3 face="Times New Roman">I have also zoomed to an area that shows some tennis courts.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=3 face="Times New Roman">- then create a map and add a the view to it and in the scale combo box, choose "Scale specified by user" and type the scale denominator you wanted multiplied by 3.281 (because 3.281 feet = 1 meter). In my example, I typed 3281 (1000 * 3.281 = 3281).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=3 face="Times New Roman">- then add a text element with the "true" scale (in my example, 1:1000)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=3 face="Times New Roman">And that's it, if you print the map (for example on A4 paper), the scale will be the originally desired scale. You can see my final PDF here:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=3 face="Times New Roman"><A href="http://www.prodevelop.es/files/fm/public/downloads/documents/tennis.pdf">http://www.prodevelop.es/files/fm/public/downloads/documents/tennis.pdf</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=3 face="Times New Roman">The tennis courts will be about 24 mm long on the paper, while their true size is 23.8 meters, so the scale is truly 1:1000.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=3 face="Times New Roman">Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Juan Lucas Domínguez Rubio<BR></FONT>---</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>De:</B> gvsig_internacional-bounces@listserv.gva.es en nombre de kevpry<BR><B>Enviado el:</B> sáb 06/11/2010 22:10<BR><B>Para:</B> gvsig_internacional@listserv.gva.es<BR><B>Asunto:</B> Re: [Gvsig_english] Map Scale<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Just another observation<BR><BR>When I chose the meters option in the map mode for the scale bar, the road<BR>in the above example measures 50 meters and in the view mode measures 50<BR>feet.<BR>--<BR>View this message in context: <A href="http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Map-Scale-tp5703519p5713128.html">http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Map-Scale-tp5703519p5713128.html</A><BR>Sent from the gvSIG international mailing list archive at Nabble.com.<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Gvsig_internacional mailing list<BR>Gvsig_internacional@listserv.gva.es<BR><A href="http://listserv.gva.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gvsig_internacional">http://listserv.gva.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gvsig_internacional</A><BR></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>