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One of the nice new features coming in QGIS 1.7 is the ability to use data driven labelling interactively. I made a little video to illustrate below. This work was carried out by Marco Hugentobler of Sourcepole.

Oh, and just for Andreas, here is the same video as a webm file :-)

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4 Responses to “Interactive label placement in QGIS 1.7”

  1. Barry Rowlingson

    Tim,
    how does the system decide what labels to use the default positioning for? Is it the presence of NULL in the x and y fields? Otherwise I don’t see where that’s stored…

    • Tim Sutton

      Hi Barry

      Yes as I understand it, if the field value is NULL for x and y it uses PAL to place the label and I think the same applies to rotation. However in my testing the same wasnt true for label size – if label size was null the label didn’t display. Hence I preset the labels to 10px.

      Regards

      Tim

  2. Andreas Neumann

    Thanks Tim – it is much appreciated that there is now an alternative to Flash videos. Thank you for taking the time!

    Andreas

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