Tag Archives: style

From Underdark: New QGIS Symbol Packages

Posted on December 22, 2012 by

Check out this post by Underdark about two sets of new QGIS symbol packages with series of simple fill symbols based on ColorBrewer. Create work!

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From attribute table to QGIS style file – step 2

Posted on July 2, 2012 by

This post is a follow up on an earlier post where I described how to use a column with RGB values in an (attribute) table to create mapping symbols for QGIS. The next step is to create the qml legend … Continue reading →

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From attribute table to QGIS style file – step 1

Posted on June 15, 2012 by

I have a large number of GRASS vector layers with in the attribute table a RGB column defining the colours of the corresponding mapping units. Unfortunately, unlike GRASS, QGIS does not offer the option to to set colours from an … Continue reading →

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Embed layers and groups in QGIS

Posted on October 7, 2011 by

The option to “Embed layers and groups” is a nice new feature in QGIS (upcoming version 1.8). I hadn’t spotted it, but it was mentioned on the QGIS forum (always a valuable source of information).

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