Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Overview (inset map ) in map composer
Hi Andreas, I don't like manually setting extents values in the composer, I prefer having the same extents in the map canvas and in the composer, but sometimes I can't because the composer doesn't exactly follows the map canvas (specially when I want to print in A3 format). I know we can zoom with the mouse wheel but then the zoom factor is sometimes too big. Maybe if we can have more precision on the zoom factor, like by holding the CTRL key while zooming with the mouse wheel, or/and a zoom-rectangle button... 2010/10/28 Andreas Neumann a.neum...@carto.net: Hi Lionel, Do you mean a zoom-rectangle in the selected map view? I usually set the map scale to some round value (I don't like map scales that are not rounded). This sets the zoom value for me. Then you can change the map extent by dragging the map content. Are you aware that you can also zoom with the mouse wheel in the map in the print composer? Given this functionality - do you still think that the zoom rectangle is necessary? Andreas On Thu, October 28, 2010 9:39 am, Lionel Roubeyrie wrote: 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 + (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 -- Andreas Neumann http://www.carto.net/neumann/ http://www.svgopen.org/ -- 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
Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Overview (inset map ) in map composer
On 10/29/2010 12:50 AM, John C. Tull wrote: I don't think that they (they being me, by the way) forgot that was a problem. I probably just did a poor job of articulating the issue and solution. I recognize that the overview map is not always what you want for an overview map in the composer. What might be a better solution would be to have an overview map option in the composer that uses those layers that you have selected to be in the overview map on the canvas. You could then change the scale of this overview map in the composer, recenter, etc. Something like a Place overview map tool or similar. My needs are slightly different. Firstly, in the overview window I often do not put the same layers as the main window. Sometimes, just a scanned topo map in sufficient in the overview. Secondly, the important feature is an extent rectangle that shows in the overview window the actual extents of the main map window. Thanks, Micha Cheers, John On Oct 27, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Alister Hood wrote: 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 + (UTC) From: Marco Tucknermarcotuck...@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 ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user This mail was received via Mail-SeCure System. -- Micha Silver Arava Development Co. +972-52-3665918 http://www.surfaces.co.il ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Overview (inset map ) in map composer
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 + (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
Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Overview (inset map ) in map composer
Hi Lionel, Do you mean a zoom-rectangle in the selected map view? I usually set the map scale to some round value (I don't like map scales that are not rounded). This sets the zoom value for me. Then you can change the map extent by dragging the map content. Are you aware that you can also zoom with the mouse wheel in the map in the print composer? Given this functionality - do you still think that the zoom rectangle is necessary? Andreas On Thu, October 28, 2010 9:39 am, Lionel Roubeyrie wrote: 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 + (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 -- Andreas Neumann http://www.carto.net/neumann/ http://www.svgopen.org/ ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Overview (inset map ) in map composer
I don't think that they (they being me, by the way) forgot that was a problem. I probably just did a poor job of articulating the issue and solution. I recognize that the overview map is not always what you want for an overview map in the composer. What might be a better solution would be to have an overview map option in the composer that uses those layers that you have selected to be in the overview map on the canvas. You could then change the scale of this overview map in the composer, recenter, etc. Something like a Place overview map tool or similar. Cheers, John On Oct 27, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Alister Hood wrote: 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 + (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 ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
