Re: [Qgis-user] Detail-level of exported maps

2021-02-05 Thread Sebastian Gutwein
Fred, This is in my experience a limitation of the online basemaps. They are not designed for printing. As mentioned earlier you can use the map tiler plugin https://www.maptiler.com/qgis-plugin/ to add vector tile maps. This has 2 advantages. First if you print at 72 dpi the labels will still be c

Re: [Qgis-user] Detail-level of exported maps

2021-02-04 Thread Patrick Dunford
You can control the display of labels in the GIS and composer by specifying scale based rules for labelling On 5/02/21 2:01 am, Frederik Franke wrote: Dear QGIS users, I’m relatively new to QGIS and need a quick help to export a map (as pdf) from the QGIS composer. My map contains an OpenS

Re: [Qgis-user] Detail-level of exported maps

2021-02-04 Thread Saber Razmjooei
Hi Frederik, What type of map are you using for your background? I suggest using Vector Tile map. Kind regards Saber On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 at 13:01, Frederik Franke wrote: > Dear QGIS users, > > > > I’m relatively new to QGIS and need a quick help to export a map (as pdf) > from the QGIS compos

[Qgis-user] Detail-level of exported maps

2021-02-04 Thread Frederik Franke
Dear QGIS users, I’m relatively new to QGIS and need a quick help to export a map (as pdf) from the QGIS composer. My map contains an OpenStreetMap background map and I have the problem that the exported OpenStreetMap is much too detailed (e.g. hundreds of village names are included with