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I am using QGIS 2.18.18

I have a map of rivers and I want to style them based on their width. I have width as an attribute of the rivers layer.

Just as we can style colors by category or graduated styling, I want to do the same with width. Currently I use an expression editor for data driven override (circled in the picture) after which I have to manually classify everything. If classification could be done by quantiles, jenks or other breaks automatically, then it would be easier for me to see which classification has what effect on my map. As I said, that is possible with color, but I cannot figure out how to do it with width

If there is a way to do it without code that would be great, as I haven't learnt that yet. If there isn't, then I'll implement it once I learn code.

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You can use graduted stylings for color and also size when using point or line features. In case of lines the size is used to classify the width. There you find also the options for natural breaks and other classifications.

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  • Haha thanks. I totally skipped over it while using graduated
    – Dhaval Shukla
    Commented Apr 23, 2018 at 8:24
  • @Matte I was wondering why I am not able to see the graduated colors still.
    – MapQuest
    Commented Jan 7, 2020 at 9:28
  • Can you check if your datatype is numeric? Won´t work with text.
    – Matte
    Commented Jan 8, 2020 at 9:17
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Go to Symbology, Single Symbol, Simple Line and click to Edit:

Edit line stroke width

Then open the option 'Fields and values' and refer to the attribute name containing the pen widths. Pen widths based on attribute data, Natural Earth rivers data set

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