Timeline for Adding Street Names and Labels to QGIS Map as separate layer
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| Oct 22, 2019 at 19:45 | comment | added | Oli Sard | Thank you CSK. Is there a particular layer name I should be looking for in QuickMapServices? Thanks | |
| Oct 22, 2019 at 18:38 | comment | added | csk | Every type of thing you want labeled already exists, but they will all be in separate files. Tracking them down and combining them into one map would be a lot of work, but the basic principle is the same: add the layer to the map, turn on labeling and turn off symbology. ESRI does provide a map layer that's just labels, but you can't change the font. You can get it through the QuickMapServices plugin. | |
| Oct 22, 2019 at 18:35 | comment | added | csk | The steps I explained here are exactly how to create a layer of just the words arranged on a blank map. The point of importing the pdf into QGIS is to give you a reference to help you create the names and arrange them on the map. If you don't want to import the pdf you can just place them freehand, but that seems more difficult than doing it with a map underneath it. The layer has to have some spatial information (eg points), otherwise QGIS won't know where to put them. | |
| Oct 22, 2019 at 18:30 | comment | added | Oli Sard | Thank you CSK. Is there a way to just create a layer in the layers window of just the words? I'm looking for a ESRI or ZIP file which I can overlay on top of the OpenStreetMap layer however I havent found a website that offers just street, road, river names etc. I'm not importing any PDF's into QGIS, I'm looking to export a PDF (Using Export Map to PDF) with just the words (street names, road names etc). Is this something that can be done? Thanks so much | |
| Oct 22, 2019 at 17:57 | history | answered | csk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |