Scale Bar Plugin

Scale Bar Plugin

The Scale Bar plugin adds a simple scale bar to the map canvas. You control the style and placement, as well as the labeling of the bar.

QGIS only supports displaying the scale in the same units as your map frame. So if the units of your layers are in meters, you can't create a scale bar in feet. Likewise if you are using decimal degrees, you can't create a scale bar to display distance in meters. <P> To add a scale bar: <P>

1. Click on Plugins > Decorations > scale_barScale Bar or use the scale_barScale Bar button from the Toolbar.
2. Choose the placement from the PlacementBottom Left drop-down list
3. Choose the style from the Scale bar styleTick Down list
4. Select the color for the bar Color of barblack or use the default black color
5. Set the size of the bar and its label Size of bar30 degrees
6. Make sure the Enable scale bar checkbox is checked
7. Optionally choose to automatically snap to a round number when the canvas is resized Automatically snap to round number on resize
8. Click OK

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Figure: Scale Bar Plugin

[clip=true, width=8cm]scale_bar_dialog