HI, and a select zoom area button in the print composer would be a great thing too, setting manually extents is not as simple as in the map canvas. cheers
2010/10/28 Alister Hood <alister.h...@synergine.com>: > Hi guys, > There is a feature request for adding the map from the overview pane to > the composer: > https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/2348 > That person is after essentially the same result as you Marco, but they > seem to have forgotten that the extent of the map view is almost always > at least slightly different from the extent of the detail map in the > print composer. So the map extent rectangle shown in the overview would > be wrong. > > It might be more flexible anyway to have a plugin add a rectangle to a > normal map canvas on the print composer, showing the extents of another > map canvas. I think this would be a popular feature - does anyone know > how feasible it would be? > > I imagine the other problem mentioned in that ticket (the difficulty > around preserving/changing the layers shown on a map canvas in the > composer) is something that should be addressed separately. > > Regards, > Alister > >> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:42:10 +0000 (UTC) >> From: Marco Tuckner <marcotuck...@public-files.de> >> Subject: [Qgis-user] Re: Overview (inset map ) in map composer >> To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org >> Message-ID: <loom.20101027t174030-...@post.gmane.org> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> >> > You can simply add another map to the canvas, and then set the >> extents and >> scale to only cover your area of interest. >> Yes. >> But how do I make them dynamically zoom and also display an extend >> rectangle on >> the overview map showing th extend of the detailed map? >> >> Thanks for following up. >> >> Regards, >> Marco > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > -- Lionel Roubeyrie lionel.roubey...@gmail.com http://youarealegend.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user