Covered topics:
- QGIS Cartographic Shortcuts
- Future topics
QGIS Cartographic Shortcuts
- Evan Derickson gave an awesome presentation on QGIS Cartographic Shortcuts.
- Wanted to recreate ESRI cartography with QGIS
- Hillshade
- Old technique: % transparency
- QGIS:
- Blend Mode
- Borrowed from graphics software
- Doing math from the two layers
- Multiply: makes the shadows darker, never lighter
- Contrast Enhancement in the Hillshades Layer Properties-Style - Stretch to Min Max
- Set the Max to the peak band in the histogram
- This reduces the areas that are darkened. So the areas that would have a little darkening wont have any.
- Soft-light: brightens and darkens
- Blend Mode
- ESRI now has a Swiss Method that Evan is trying to emulate with multiple angle hill-shades
- Natural Earth has some great manual hillshades at small scale.
- Glow Effects
- Doesn’t like to do just line borders on his polygons
- Polygon layer properties - Style - Draw Effects check-box => Effect properties
- Inner Glow
- Inner Shadow
- Vignetting
- You can load and save files from the style button in the Layer Properties - Style
- Switch from simple fill to shapeburst fill
- Many settings to adjust
- Can ignore rings if you don’t want islands to affect the vignetting
- Blurring at almost full strength gave a good effect
- Inverted Polygons
- Layer Properties - Inverted Polygons instead of Single Polygons
- Sub renderer controls how everything outside your selected polygons is symbolized.
- Layer Properties - Inverted Polygons instead of Single Polygons
- Inner Borders
- Allows coincident boundaries of adjacent polygons and symbolizes them according to polygon attributes
- Outline for polygon is “Outline: Simple line” instead of “Simple line”, then draw line only inside polygon
- Rule Based Labeling & styles
- Can do different labels on locator map and main map despite them both pointing at the same map.
- Set scale ranges in the layer properties labels
- Can control entire layers with scale maxes and mins for the layer
- Can control symbology by changing single symbol to rule-based in layer properties - style
Ideas for future meetups
- Geo Packages - Stu
- QGIS Map Packages - Stu
- Time Manager - Stu
- Web Mapping - group
- Q Field - Stu