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I created a grid of rectangular polygons with the Create Grid function, from the Vector Creation group of the Processing Toolbox in QGIS 3.4.2. The rectangles measure half a degree of longitude by half a degree of latitude.

When I want to label the polygons, I write an expression that rounds the values of latitude and longitude attributes to 2 decimal places, since the attributes created in the grid brings many decimal places.

But the round function rounds the values badly.

I know that I can create new attributes that express the coordinates with fewer decimal places and label the entities based on those attributes, but I was struck by the behavior of the function. I expected it to round to the nearest value.

Does anyone know what the problem is that the round function wrongly rounds off the decimal number?

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Actually I cannot replicate the same behavior that you have. I created a grid with 0.5 degree width of latitude and longitude, and I round it to 2 decimal degree and it works fine. Then I added another column with a value of 50.49 and round it to 1 decimal and it worked as expected and I got 50.5. Here is the table with values:

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I am not sure what was going wrong in your case. I used the exact version of QGIS 3.4.2.

Update

You are right. If I use negative latitude and longitude, I got strange results. I think this is a bug in QGIS 3.4.2. You should report this as a bug in QGIS 3.4.2 to the QGIS developer team here:

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Update 2

The issue of rounding negative values was fixed in the latest stable release of QGIS 3.4.4-3. Now rounding negative numbers produces correct results:

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  • Thank you very much for your response, I am creating a new grid in a new project to find the solution, but the problem persists. However, I am realizing that the problem does not arise if I create the grid in positive latitude and longitude coordinates. Could you try it in negative coordinates (South and West)?
    – Gabriel De Luca
    Dec 21, 2018 at 2:07
  • @GabrielDeLuca You are right, I updated my answer.
    – ahmadhanb
    Dec 21, 2018 at 2:25
  • Thank you @ahmadhanb, I just opened this bug report.
    – Gabriel De Luca
    Dec 21, 2018 at 3:05
  • This issue was already fixed in the latest stable version 3.4.4-3, if you want to update your answer I can accept it.
    – Gabriel De Luca
    Feb 14, 2019 at 19:29
  • I have updated my answer. Thank you for updating me about the issue.
    – ahmadhanb
    Feb 15, 2019 at 6:10

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