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The scale bar is very off, I believe the length of the scale bar shown should cover 20-40 km in this area easily. I have everything on the project and layers set to epsg: 26919. As you can see the ratio is 1:9 because I am using imported shapefiles only for this area.

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  • what is the projection of your project? I'd guess it's in degrees – Ian Turton Aug 21 '20 at 13:04
  • how do i figure out if it's in degrees or not? – Lisa Wang Aug 21 '20 at 13:19
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    it is the same issue as in your previous post: your data is not in UTM but is rather unprojected (CRS 4617). You first need to set the proper CRS on the layers. As it is, you have a layer in degrees and have instructed QGIS that it is in meters instead.... so 1 degree becomes 1 meter, which is obviously wrong – JGH Aug 21 '20 at 13:32
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    Usually the clue it is in degrees is things like the scale bar is off. – Ian Turton Aug 21 '20 at 13:46
  • i'll add another photo but all of my layers are set to UTM 19/ EPSG: 26919, i've edited all of them individually – Lisa Wang Aug 21 '20 at 15:33
  • Somewhere in your process the wrong projection was assigned to the layer (maybe a misuse between set crs, which just change the projection code and project, which actually transform the coordinates). You need to go back and fix this mistake first (i.e. set the CRS to 4617), then you can project the data to 26919. – JGH Aug 21 '20 at 17:12
  • I have tried to export the shapefiles with the crs set tp 26919 and added them back to my project but perhaps I'm doing something wrong? – Lisa Wang Aug 21 '20 at 18:27
  • Which QGIS version? Did you check this: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/34926 – Babel Aug 23 '20 at 09:12
  • I actually am using 3.10.2 maybe that's the problem? I'll try to do what the user did to the prj file – Lisa Wang Aug 23 '20 at 19:23

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