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QGIS small text with OSMon on a 4K laptop screen
With a 4K laptop display (Dell 9710) when bringing in OSM maps with OSM Standard, OpenStreet Map, with EPSG:3857, the text labels at any level of scale are tiny, almost impossible to read. The project ...
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Disable labeling of OSM in QGIS
Is there a way to disable the labeling of OSM in QGIS ?
If I try to create a map the labels interfere sometimes with my lines I like to depict.
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Adding OpenStreetMap copyright label
I have looked up Crediting OpenStreetMap maps in QGIS.
For QGIS 3.22 LTR this seems to be missing or moved somewhere else.
How do I add the copyight label for OSM data ?
I know View -> Decorations -...
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Is there an OpenStreetMap label layer?
Is there an OSM label layer available? This same question was asked 7 years ago. I neither see such a layer in the OpenLayers plugin nor QuickMapServices.
I'm working on a project with a 50% ...
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How to maintain OpenStreetMap labels/details (from QuickMapServices) when exporting from QGIS? [duplicate]
My question is about OpenStreetMap place labels in QGIS, and how to keep them at a similar size when exported to as they appear in the software. I realise variations of this question have been asked ...
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Regular expression to extract road labels from OSM other_tags ref
Extended question to the issue: Regular expression substring for labelling
The answers I've found on the link above were fine for "simple" road labels.
Unfortunately, I don't have a big SQL-...
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Label OSM polygons above a certain size?
I'm wanting to label polygons on a map that are above a certain area. These polygons are dervied from open streetmap and consist of either ways or multipart polygons ie If polygon is more than 160 sq ...
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Arabic names reversed (left to right instead of right to left) using QGIS [closed]
I am working in a map with mixed names (Arabic and English). Data comes from OSM, a PBF export from BBBIKE, imported to Spatialite using OGR2OGR. I am adding the spatialite database using UTF-8 ...
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How do I get the building housenumber from OSM data?
I've made a map in which buildings in a city are displayed using shapefiles from Geofabrik and unfortunately, none of the shapes contain the housenumber.
When I download the .osm files from Geofabrik ...
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QGIS labels / MapQuest background [duplicate]
I do have a problem with QGIS.
I Have to create a map which shows different areas in a city. It is important, that there are labels with names of the streets, so that my clients can work with the map. ...
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Rotating view without losing labels in QGIS?
Using QGIS 2.8 Wien and a beautiful shapefile from OpenStreetMap.
When I rotate the map (either in the print composer or in the main QGIS panel) the labels with the street name disappear. I've tried ...
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one label for two-lane roads (osm, qgis, postgis)
I labeled my osm-lines-layer (PostGIS) with symbols for primary roads and motorways. While the symbols for the primary roads are well placed - with enough distance between each - the two-lane motorway ...
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How to create a printable map of labelled markers with OSM background?
I want to create an image of an OpenStreetMap map suitable for printing on A4 at 300dpi.
The map needs to have half a dozen markers/points, and each should be labeled with the name of the point.
I ...
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Labeling selection of OSM layer in QGIS depending on certain tags?
I just imported original OSM data to export a pdf-map by assigning graphic attributes to the features I need.
The label tool in QGIS 1.8 allows to select certain features, like I can do with the ...
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How to draw parallel or curved labels for OSM data in QGIS?
I'm trying to recreate a Google style map using OpenStreetMap data and QGIS. I've been following underdarks many wonderful guides but am getting stuck at the labels. The OSM data was taken from ...
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