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QGIS Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   QGIS Quick Start Guide A beginner's guide to getting started with QGIS 3.4

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789341157
Length 164 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Labeling

Open the QGIS project we built in Chapter 4, Styling Data. We will be using it to build a map. Turn on the Label Toolbar by selecting View | Toolbars and select Label Toolbar. Label Toolbar is shown as follows:

Labeling toolbar

There are eight buttons on this toolbar; in order, these are the following:

  • Clicking on Layer Labeling Options will open the Layer Styling Panel and the label tab by default
  • Layer Diagram Options
  • Highlight Pinned Labels and Diagrams
  • Pin/Unpin Labels And Diagrams
  • Show/Hide Labels And Diagrams
  • Move Label and Diagram
  • Rotate Label
  • Change Label, used for label editing

Make sure that the Airports layer is selected in the Layers panel. Click on the layer labeling button on Label Toolbar. This will open the Layer Styling Panel; we used this in the previous chapter to style our layers. Choose Single labels and the label with NAME to label all Airports...

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