Questions tagged [scale]
The ratio between distances on a map and distances in the world
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Increase max zoom for large scale raster with GeoServer
I'm serving a large scale raster (warehouse map) with GeoServer.
I consume the WMS in a Leaflet web client and coordinates are projected according to EPSG:3857.
But it seems that maximum zoom is ...
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Scaling WGS84 coordinates?
I know this is a weird question, but I would like to know if it is possible to construct a proj4 string so that I can use proj4 to convert from WGS84 to a "scaled" WGS84 system. For example with a ...
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Scale of shape in a Print Layout
I am making an atlas with a fixed scale, and want to include circles with a fixed radius (in scaled kilometers) about the center point in the atlas (see image below). I was able to do this by ...
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Creating Scale field based on polyline length (ArcMap)(Python)
I'm playing around with data driven pages, and have a polyline feature class that I'm using as my index. Now, because the lines are all of variable lengths I can't just use the default settings as ...
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What is WMTS' ScaleDenominator?
I am trying to write a program which will render tiles from EPSG2180-based WMTS server. Given coordinates of a point (WSG84 or EPSG2180, I can convert from one to another) I want to render a tile ...
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zoomScale() doesn't work in QGIS 2.14 standalone c++ application
Can't set scale for my canvas with mapCanvas.zoomScale(50000); Seems like canvas is zooming to 1:1 and for a few seconds I can't zoom in or zoom out with mouse wheel. Any suggestions?
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Adjust label/symbol size in print composer automatically when choosing different scale for atlas
I am having trouble with my labels/symbols in the print composer and didn't find a solution here so far.
I have a project with a certain area from which I have to create several layouts in the print ...
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Understanding projection, extent and scale in QGIS?
I am creating a map using QGIS that has shapefiles in different projections. I was able to reproject them to the correct ESPG code that I need, however they do not line up. My base layer "illinois ...
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QGIS3 How to export shapefile symbology to scale?
I'm looking how to export in QGIS3 a vector layer with a determined scale.
It was straightforward in QGIS2 when I was exporting to a shapefile I had the option symbology scale but it disapear in QGIS3 ...
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Interpreting meter values of extent using ArcGIS Pro?
I am using ArcGIS Pro application to create a map and add a single polygon feature class onto the map.
As shown below, I use bold polyline to outline the boundary of the polygon and click "zoom to ...
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Raster Resolution - Will not display past certain scale
I just created a mosaic of a couple hundred digital elevation models in ArcGIS desktop. The mosaic only appears at the raster resolution. I am working with a very large area and need the scale of my ...
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QGIS 3.2 - How can I scale polygon about his center? [duplicate]
How can I scale a polygon about his center? I find only transform function, but the scale function here can only move the polygon with the scale factor and don't enlarge it.
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Scale bar for Iceland map not accurate
I'm a fairly new user to QGIS and was trying to generate a map of Iceland. However my grid scales are not matching up. The base map I'm using is Esri National Geographic which uses CRS- EPSG:3857 - ...
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Trying to figure out ArcGIS API's `mapScale` variable and how it maps to OpenStreetMap's zoom level
I'm using ArcGIS' /export endpoint to get an .svg of a few map layers given a specific bounding box. However, when I apply the .svg as an image overlay to OpenStreetMap's world map using Leaflet, the ...
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Print Openlayers WMS map with fixed scaling
I need to print a map with a fixed scale (1:500 and 1:1000) on A4. The online map is done with Openlayers, the print request is sent to QGIS Server using WMS getPrint function.
I mange to get an ...
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QGIS Print composer using margin and scale
When using the Atlas feature in the print composer is there any way of using both the Margin around feature and a defined scale?
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AGOL: Overwrite existing tile service - Invalid min scale in the specified source item
I'm trying to automate updating a tile service where:
TPK is generated from a feature class in an .mxd (data frame is web mercator)
TPK is pushed up to AGOL
Tile Service is published
TPK is deleted ...
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QGIS 3.4 layout: fix extent and scale, let size adjust automatically
I'd like to create maps with a defined extent and scale. Logically, the map size has to adjust accordingly.
Since I will be using the maps as pdfs (and not on paper), this won't bother me.
Is this ...
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Creating more than one map page and breaking geometry representation based on max map scale in QGIS Atlas?
I am using atlas tool of QGIS. Map scales were defined for better fit in each geometry based on predefined values.
I would like to know if there is a way to create a new map page and 'break' the ...
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Earth Engine export scale interpretation
I'm exporting a Landsat RGB image from Earth Engine. I want to use the full native resolution (30-m pixels) in the output file. However, it seems that using 30 in the scale argument fails to export at ...
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Changing legend spacing to be further away from map border in QGIS?
I am using QGIS 3.2.3
I am creating a map in which I have added a legend to (see figure below).
My issue is that I am trying to create a legend which has spacing between the two columns. I have ...
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Scale issues with Google Roads XYZ tiles in QGIS layout
I am trying to include Google Roads as XYZ Tiles in QGIS in a map that I want to export as PDF as a Layout.
Google roads features and the text looks ok on QGIS and in the Layout, however, after I ...
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Which is the View.getResolution() units? [duplicate]
In OpenLayers v5, if I have a view defined like this:
var view = new View({
center: [952014.59, 5571269.68],
zoom: 8
});
, trying to get its resolution doing view.getResolution() outputs 611....
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Appropriate resolution for regression analysis
I'm using ArcMap 10.3. I'm a student working on a research problem where I'm taking Landsat imagery (at 30-meters resolution) and regressing it against other datasets captured at different scales (up ...
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How to get extent from current resolution in OpenLayers 3 for printing
I need to print a map with a fixed scale of 1:500 horizontally on a A4 paper (297x210mm). The map is done with Openlayers, the print request is sent to QGIS server using WMS getPrint function.
Till ...
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Can you make QGIS decorations scale dependent?
I have a QGIS project that includes a grid decoration. Is it possible to display this decoration only when zoomed in? I.e. can decorations in QGIS have scale dependent visibility?
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How to scale features declining using map units in QGIS
I have layer in QGIS that I want to style using SVG symbols.
I want the SVGs to increase in size when zooming in the map. I can solve this by using map units instead of millimeters.
Though, I don't ...
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WMS - understanding <Min> and <MaxScaleDenominator>
I am working on a personal web gis client and the first thing I am implementing is support for OGC WMS 1.3.0.
Right now, I am in the middle of greying out layers in my layer tree which are not ...
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Assessing impact of spatial scale on derivative calculations and associated kernel size?
Full question: What is the most appropriate way to assess the impact of spatial scale on derivative calculations associated with typical 3x3 moving window kernel operations?
This relates to a couple ...
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Custom Projection and Alignment of Large-Scale RGB Time Series Mosaics
We are running an experiment to observe time to germination and growth in potato plants in a greenhouse. To that end we have built a gantry system equipped with an RGB camera to capture the plants ...
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GeoServer - Conversion formula between scale and resolution
I am trying to figure out what is the conversion formula between scale and resolution used by GeoServer, specifically when creating a new gridset for Tile Caching. One would expect that the conversion ...
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Setting fixed scale of map in MapInfo layout?
How do I set the scale of a map in MapInfo v16 64bit in a simple way?
I can zoom in and out using my mouse but I cannot find how to set the scale to say 1:1000 or 1:2000.
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Scale raster cell in stack from -1 to 1 with R [closed]
I have a raster stack with 364 layers with a daily rate of change in NDVI values.
I want to scale these values in every cell if positive from 0 to 1 and if negative from -1 to 0. So far I have only ...
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How to maintain current zoom level when panning to a new feature? [duplicate]
I want to speed up my work. How could I get ArcMap to stay at my current zoom level when panning to a new feature?
What I am currently doing is using Ctrl+Enter to move through my attribute table and ...
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Disappearing map image when georeferencing in ArcGIS 10.6 desktop
I am trying to add an un-georeferenced map into ArcMap as raster so that I can manually georeference it, then use it as a base to draw polygon features on top of it.
I can add in the image and ...
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Generate grid for specific scale in QGIS
I have a rather large map that I want to break down into smaller parts, or sheets. So I'm going to use the 'atlas' feature of QGIS Print Layouts. My layers in QGIS have a CRS of GDA94 (degrees), where ...
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Why does gdalinfo -hist give values outside of [0 - 65535]?
I am running gdalinfo -hist on a 3 band tif file and am getting the following output (see below). Notice it says 256 buckets from -78 to 40184. That's fine, but then when it shows the histogram, ...
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MapProxy WMS Print Scale Problem
The application that I work with consumes WMS services created in Geoserver via MapProxy. I used ysld to style my layers. As long as I want just display my layers in the application, the scales that I ...
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Scaling layer symbols from ArcMap to QGIS
I am recreating the symbology of a cartography moving from ArcMAP to QGIS substituting some font symbols in arcmap and reproducing them with new .svg symbols. The problem is that setting the size of ...
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Set zoom level to display full extent of specific layer when starting a project in QGIS
I have project in QGIS 3.2 with different shapefiles and WMS layer. When I start the projectfile (.qgs) I want the extent of the map to be the same as one specific WMS layer (same as the option "zoom ...
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OpenLayers 2: zoomToExtent with scale
I need to zoom map to show some selected features from layer. So I am creating a temporary layer with features and zoom to this temporary layer.
The problem - usually the scale is too small, so I ...
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How to get DPI to find current scale in OpenLayers?
Is there a way to automatically retrieve the DPI value of an OpenLayers page? The goal is to automatically retrieve the map scale from this code:
function mapScale (dpi) {
var unit = map....
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Can GDAL give the scale of a raster?
I have a GeoTIFF and I am trying to overlay a scale (miles or km) using GDAL.
Is there a function in GDAL that will do this?
I believe ArcPy has this functionality, but I am guessing GDAL does ...
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ol3 zoom with defined scale
I am trying to show map based on the gridset defined in geoserver, in such a manner that map zooms to that Scale only.
Scale is as follow : 1:1000, 1:500, 1:400, 1:300
view = new ol.View({
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Understanding scaling or projection with vector shapefiles which leads to 1:500,000,000,000? [closed]
I am conducting a habitat suitability analysis using ArcGIS desktop 10.2.2.
I have a vector .shp of a number of georeferenced hare sightings across Ireland, however when I load the layer on to my map,...
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Getting wrong scale on georeferenced TIFF in QGIS?
I just georeferenced a map of Iceland using the ISN93 coordinate system. It looks like it was successful since when I transform some random coordinates to WGS84 and compare them to Google Maps it does ...
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Printed map has different scales for raster and vector layers in QGIS?
I am trying to help a friend in another part of the country diagnose this problem. She has a background layer from google and has a vector layer overlaid on it. It looks fine in the composer but ...
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How zoom base on scale in ol?
I want to zoom to ol3 map base on scale(for example 1:50000). This means every 1cm in ol map must show 50000cm in real world. for converting scale to resolution I used as follows:
var ...
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Invert the legend scale representation [in R environment]
Through the following code,
cols <- (heat.colors(255))
plot(raster_sum3, col=cols[round(seq(1,255,length.out=10))], legend=TRUE) # raster of the study area
plot(site_3003, add=TRUE) # site ...
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Group scale-based visibility QGIS 3
Is it possible to set scale-based visibility for groups or sub-groups of layers in QGIS 3?
