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I've got more than 200 shapefiles of points representing different information for the same location. I would like to make as many maps as shapefiles with identical background and extent. I'd rather use QGIS, but ArcGIS 9.3/10 would be ok too. I found EasyPrint and Atlas, which are great, but both are zooming on the shapefile.. which I don't want to. Atlas is way better as it lets you use your own print composer.. but it only wants one shapefile (coverage) while I've got many.

Any idea on what I could use? I don't mind a bit of programming, especially because that would save me a looooot of time!

Thanks a lot!

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So you want to iterate over the same coverage but display different information each time? Just a different polygon or also a different map title, table etc? – Willy Jul 4 '12 at 10:55
At the moment the points I want to map are stored in different shapefiles. Different map title, generated from a field of the shapefile would be good. I was thinking of using the legend if the title was not working, as used in the plugin Atlas. – heleneliz Jul 4 '12 at 12:31

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Build a shapefile specifically to control Atlas. Probably you could do this by merging the 200 shapefiles to one.

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As far as I understand Atlas iterates through each feature of the 'coverage' (shapefile), so because each current shapefiles are made of multiple points, if I merged them all Atlas would represent point per point. Is that right? Otherwise I had thought of creating lines joining all the points and then it's possible to use Atlas and represent what I need. The issue then is that it centers around the feature while I want to keep the same extent. – heleneliz Jul 5 '12 at 11:18

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