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I exported mountain saddles (natural=saddle) from overpass-turbo.eu as GeoJSON. I manged to display the saddles on a map with a symbol/marker like a point.

I'd rather like to display the saddles on the map with an icon which indicates a saddle and also indicates the orientation of the saddle like it is common on maps.

Any idea how to do that?

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    For the icon, you have to import an image or SVG into QGIS to symbolize your point geometry. For the orientation, have you a field with this information in the attribute table ? (or a way to have this information ?)
    – J. Monticolo
    Commented Feb 9, 2023 at 14:35

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You need the information on the orientation of the saddle clockwise in degree from North/0° as an attribute. Then use data defined override on the rotation of the symbol, handing it the field containing the orientation value.

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  • thanks. it seems to me that the difficult part will be getting the orientation. It's not in the osm tags. I believe I've to calculate it myself from dem/srtm data :-(
    – think nice things
    Commented Feb 9, 2023 at 21:04

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