Author Archives: raymond

Imagine you have a list of different features at locations and you want to display those on a map like this: The QGIS diagrams expect a column for each pie or bar, but our features are all listed in one column: And our geometry is stored in a good old shapefile: So, we can use […]

Sometimes I prefer to publish my map in gray instead of black. But all newly added QGIS composer items are set to black by default. For changing the colors more easily and rapidly I created the “Turn Gray” plugin. By default it changes all foreground colors (labels and outlines) to gray. But you are free […]

An advantage of using map services like WMS and WMTS is that your styling has been done by someone else. But this can turn into a disadvantage as well in case the colours of your overlay are similar to the colours in your remote base layer. To show this I created an example using the […]