QGIS Cartography

Learn to create and customize label backgrounds in QGIS cartography by using rectangles, ellipses, SVG and marker symbols, adjusting color, size, and buffers to highlight text.

Learn label placement in QGIS by adjusting placement settings, set high priority, and apply offset from point with X and Y for precise, rule-based and fine-tuned labels.

Explore creative market, an online store for fonts, textures, and background images, and learn how weekly free items and email promos can boost cartographers' design work.

Learn to style categorical data in QGIS Cartography by classifying values, applying color and symbol variations, and building meaningful legends for points, lines, and polygons.

Explore how xyz tile basemaps act as a fast, configurable background layer in QGIS cartography, streaming from aerial, open street map, and vector tile sources to enrich your data.

Explore open street map data for cartographic masterpieces, export from the website, install the quick osm plugin in qgis, and query Nantucket buildings to visualize roads, polygons, and points.

Install and use the Quick Map Services plugin to add basemaps in QGIS, then search for maps like Thunder Forest landscape, OpenStreetMap, and NASA to stream as base layers.

Learn to fetch OpenStreetMap data with Overpass Turbo using the QuickOSM plugin, build and run queries, export JSON, and import points, lines, and polygons into QGIS.

Label peaks in QGIS cartography using rule-based labeling and the expression builder, apply text styles, and save label style files for reuse across OpenStreetMap data from Sweden via overpass turbo.

Change the coordinate system to world from space, add a globe inset using natural earth data, and configure the map frame and overview to display a global overview map.

Add text to a QGIS cartography layout using the add label tool, including source boxes, and format with matching fonts (Colibri), sizes, justification, color, and optional background.

Apply a white shoreline glow by combining inverted polygons with a shape fill, adjusting distance and blur to subtly lift the coast off the paper.

Create a half-tone coastal fill around a land polygon by using an inverted polygon with a blue pattern fill, adjust distance and orientation for a subtle, old-timey waterfowl coastal pattern.