I am creating an atlas plan that has multiple features that are controlling the atlas in one plan.
Instead of it generating 3 plans that look the same is it possible to only generate 1?
On my picture the three pink dots are what the atlas is generating images for however it is creating 3 plans for each when I only need one.
Is there a way of automatically sorting this or will I have to manually delete all extra plans?
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In order to skip some features you will need to filter the Atlas. In the Atlas properties where you configure things like zoom scale, etc. there is a filter option there.
So if you only want one of the three features to act as an atlas feature then you would have to filter out the others, so you would write something like:
"field_name" NOT IN('NS35705008', 'CSO000479')
If you have many features that need to be filtered then you could add an attribute into the layer called something like "in_atlas" with yes/no values and then use "in_atlas" = 'yes' as the filter.
I'm coming late to this party but I just had to figure this out by myself aswell. In my case I had 100's of point features randomly distributed all over, some being very close to each other so there was significant overlap while using the atlas.
The solution in my case was rather simple: I created a buffer layer around the point features with "Dissolve result" and "Keep disjoint result separate" checked. This way I could use the buffer layer as the hidden atlas coverage layer. This cut down the 100+ page map document down to 60 odd pages.
