Posted By David on 10-07-2009 02:01 PM
Rose,
we are going to look inti this. I think Otis possible for us to offer you a user defined unti. You would tell us how many meters fit into your defined unit. I will get back with you soon. Please bump this post to keep it alive.
David
David:
Thanks very much for your quick response!
I think 1000 meters is okay to fit into our defined unit. The options we like to provide to the client are: m, mi,km,nmi.
Another question related to this, also has something to do with the coordinate system. In my application, I used World Mercator projection and the map unit is set to meter. The scalebar is supposed to work in this environment. But it gives different distances between two cities compared with the real map scale which is also in World Mercator projection.
In my application I have a ruler tool which measurs the distance between two points. here is how I did, once I get the two points coordinate in meters , I converted them to decimal degrees, then calculated the distance using the fomular in the following link, it gives me the same distance as the real map.
movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html
How can I modify the scale numbers on the scalebar to match above conversion?
Thanks in advance!
Rose