We already have a number of layers in the layer panel, including both Vector and Raster. There are seventy-six airport points, each of which has an attribute called name. We will use this to label our data.
The QGIS labeling toolbar is shown in the following screenshot:
Labeling toolbar
If this is not shown in your QGIS project, navigate to View | Toolbars | Label Toolbar, and click to enable the toolbar. There are eight buttons on this toolbar. In order, these are as follows:
- Layer Labeling: Clicking on this will open the Layer Styling panel and the label tab by default.
- Layer Diagram properties: This is where we can control the input to our labels.
- Highlight pinned labels and diagrams.
- Pin/unpin labels and diagrams.
- Show/hide labels and diagrams.
- Move labels and diagrams.
- Rotate labels and diagrams.
- Change labels, used for label editing.
We will use these tools...