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Words treated as data by a computer
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Using Arabic labels in QGIS
In QGIS 3.30 I am trying to render labels in Arabic. When I turn on the labels, the Arabic text appears mirrored compared to how it is correctly written in the attribute table.
Does anyone have any ...
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KML Generated from Text File - Google Earth Interpreting Some Styles as ARGB, others as ABGR
I'm generating KML files from a script, and am attempting to apply color styles. Can't find any documentation of some color styles requiring ARGB (alpha-channel, red, green, blue) format and others ...
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Adapt label box size to text length in layout composer
In the layout composer I want to add a title in black text with a white background.
My title will be dynamic and I want the text box ("label" in the composer) to automatically adapt its size ...
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Setting "t" as separator in QGIS
My QGIS project and all text files have been separated into columns with the letter t.
How do I go back to the previous setting?
In the picture you can see the letter t is considered as a separator (...
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Adding letters, spaces, and removing parts of attribute string in QGIS
I have an attribute of the form:
12-06-065-03 W4M
and would like it in the following form:
LSD-12 SEC-06 TWP-065 RGE-03 MER-4
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QField numbers written in grey
When I use QField, all the numbers are written in grey color (not in black like for letters).
How to change that, to have all the texts (numbers and letters) written in black ?
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QGIS find the CRS of a map grid with map_get
When mapping with QGIS I normally have the main map grid (typically an appropriate UTM zone) as the project CRS. I also often have a secondary grid with more subtle markings displaying as Lat Longs ...
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The annotation tool is not in my attributes toolbar QGIS
I am needing to delete two text boxes I added. I am unable to select them, and for soon reason the annotation tool is not in my attributes toolbar. What do I do?
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How to change the information of a text box inside a layout using ArcPy [closed]
I have a layout in which there are several text boxes. When I click on one of the text boxes, a window appears with several parameters, for instance the name of the text box:
Imagine that I have two ...
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Importing multiple txt files using PyQGIS
I'm using QGIS v3.26, and cannot seem to get code referenced from another Q&A to work. This is the previous Q&A on this topic that I was looking at: How to create multiple QGIS layers from ...
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Add delimited text layer in QGIS3.22.10 LTR
I have commma delimited data exported from Excel to add to a map. QGIS 3.22.4 LTR perfectly loaded layers selected using Data Source Manager > Delimited Text.
Now with exactly the same CRS in ...
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QGIS 3.24 - how to use "Create Text at Point" tool
I selected to "Create Text at Point" tool in an attempt to annotate my map in QGIS version 3.24. However, this just caused the word "Text" to appear on my map. I tried to figure ...
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Invalid file format error when uploading MTL.txt file into QGIS
I am trying to upload a number of MTL.txt files into QGIS downloaded from USGS Earth Explorer. Although download is successful and I am able to import the other individual downloaded band data I am ...
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Is it possible to overline labels / text / strings in QGIS 3.x?
I would like to overline the denominator in these fractions.
Underlining the numerator would result in too short a line when the numerator is shorter than the denominator.
The numbers in this image ...
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Can I increase text size within AutoCAD Civil 3D?
I have some vision problems and I'm hoping there are options within Civil 3D to increase text size. Glasses will not help, for the record.
I have increased the text size to the maximum limit within ...
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Changing the justification of legend symbol text set from "set labels from expression..." in QGIS
In QGIS, I have a polygon layer with several text column attributes. I am theming on one, but want the text of another column to show up in the legend. I have successfully populated the text column ...
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Inconsistent error opening tab-delimited text files
I have always used tab-delimited text files to bring Excel data into QGIS. By default, these are saved by Excel with the suffix".txt". Mostly there is no problem opening these and I have ...
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Identify in ArcMap (ArcGIS Desktop) does not show text in full length
I have a polygon feature within an ESRI-Geodatabase. The field TEXTFIELD within this polygon feature is of type Text and of length 400. A text within this field is visible in full length while editing ...
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Why did my title and other text boxes disappear when I resized the layout in ArcMap?
I had finished building a nice layout with my maps, inserts, scale bar, and text boxes. However, when I changed the layout from landscape to portrait all of the map elements such as the text boxes and ...
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Border surround point text in QGIS 3.22?
Point text was just released in QGIS 3.22. Is there a way to create a black border around the text?
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Converting numerical categories to text label in QGIS
In QGIS I have a smallish dataset with around 8k cells in. Each cell has a number of attributes including a code for land surface cover (an integer between 0 and 12). I have a list of labels that go ...
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Connecting layout text boxes to item before it in QGIS 3
I have an atlas layout in QGIS 3.16 where input data can vary in character length. Therefore I made a override of box height based on text length. The problem I ran into, is that if the text is longer ...
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Exporting large txt file as point shapefile in QGIS
I have a large txt file with 10 million rows and 16 columns and I already have imported the table as a delimited text file in QGIS. In row 7 and row 8, the coordinates are stored (I also allocated x ...
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Converting text file into GeoJSON using Python
I'm trying to take in a txt-file and convert it into data for a GeoJSON dataset with these values.
I used this piece of code from this article:
Pandas to GeoJSON (Multiples points + features) with ...
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Dynamic breaks of legend text in text in QGIS Atlas 2
I have tried the solution found in Dynamic breaks of legend text in QGIS Atlas
I am using QGIS 3.10.6-A Coruña.
I have attached a screengrab below. I use the "wordwrap" expression and it ...
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Сhanging pop-up font size in qgis2web
I have a lot of info in QGIS2WEB pop-ups and would like to make the font size smaller to make the text easier to read.
I have checked all exported files, and the only instance referencing the pop-ups ...
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XYZ Tile Layer maps too small to read
I believe similar questions on this subject have been asked, but I can't figure out how to solve my problem. I have added an OpenStreetMap layer and a Google Maps layer to a QGIS project (version 3....
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OpenStreetMap text size reduces when exporting in QGIS
Street names from OSM are reducing when a map is exported, the end result doesn't match the preview. Any advice on finding a solution in QGIS 3.16.9?
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Invalid SQL statement for Text columns lookup
I'm working in ArcGIS Pro and writing rows from a source file with Text data type field to another text field in a target file but it generates an error as such:
An invalid SQL statement was used. [...
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Splitting string using ArcGIS Pro field calculator
Generating an error in what should be a basic field calculation.
I have two text fields: MyAddress and AreaName. Both are text. I would like to use MyAddress to populate AreaName with everything ...
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Is there any fix for a fieldname that already has spaces in it?
I get it. I won't do it again. Is there any fix once it is already done? I would have preferred they gave me an error when I brought the file in.
The data came from a county database where the .csv ...
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QGIS Python API set label color based on attribute field
I'm trying to set the text label color and size based on the attribute table. I got the size setting correctly but not the color.
My current result looks like this (The symbol has been set to be ...
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Using list of polygon.txt files in Onedrive to show those files in ArcGIS Pro
I have many polygon text files of different cities around the world, I was wondering how I could show these files in ArcGIS Pro. So far I have transferred these files to my C drive, and linked that ...
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Absorb data from dxf texts to near lines
So, I have 2 dxf files, one with lines and another with nodes (they used to be texts measuring the lines), and I need to extract the text from those nodes and assign it to their corresponding lines.
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Text cutting off when exporting map using ArcMap
For some reason my labels keep cutting off; the same happens with my legend when converting to pdf or jpeg.
I am using ArcMap 10.8 and have never experienced this issued until my ArcMap was ...
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Is it possible to export x and y coordinates from shapefile layer as text file in QGIS?
I am wondering if it is possible to export a list of coordinates of a shapefile layer in QGIS 3.18.
The attribute table only shows height information for every single point but no x and y coordinate.
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"Layer is not valid" error when importing UTM delimited text layer into QGIS
I'm trying to import a small delimited (tab separated) text into QGIS. The coordinates are in UTM format.
Sample data:
id
N
E
PT-001
7237229
146872
PT-002
7237230
146897
The first column contains ...
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Remove place names from the layout in the print composer using a WMS
I am new to working with maps and I am going to make a map presenting the study sites in my theisis.
As a map I am using a WMS-map provided by geonorge.no. I am wondering if there is a function in the ...
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ArcGIS Pro performance issue when using Text in Layout?
A few weeks ago I began to notice that certain map projects I was working on in ArcGIS Pro were running extremely slow when I tried making adjustments to the map Layout, specifically moving around ...
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Getting my expression to process the text in field
I am building an expression, whose function is to return True if a characteristic is selected.
The expression requires two arguments, the Feature and the name of the layer.
If I enter the name of the ...
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Importing colour map from .text file which will then correspond to geologic shapefile on QGIS 3.10.6
I have been searching for this solution for over a week now and have tried many of the suggested solutions online but so far northing has worked. I have a Geology vector layer and a corresponding RGB ...
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Selecting features by characters contained in a text string
Is there a way to select the features of a map by finding text within an attribute table? For example, if several features are listed as "Nature preserve" under a column called "...
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Sorting text column by numbers with letters
I have a text column. It's made up of the numbers 1, 2, 3 up to 1650, which are currently not in increasing order. However, it also includes text such as 520a, 639a, 639b, 639c. Sorting on increasing ...
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Multiple Text rows in QGIS divided by lines
My Problem seems rather simple but I had no sucess for over a day now.
Basically I have multiple (polygon) shape files that need text information in them (or if the shape is to small outside of it ...
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Converting text field to date field in ArcGIS Pro
How to convert date, which is in text formated field to date formated field?
Also, there is dates which have only year, without days and months and empty fields.
I've tried Convert Time Field. But it ...
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Inserting text in piechart ArcGIS
I want to insert a names or percent text into each category in a piechart. I have googled and cant find a way to do this in arcgis pro. Is there a solution to this problem?
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QGIS 3.10.7 - Subscript/superscript in the legend text [duplicate]
I'm trying to add subscript/superscript in the legend text of a layout in QGIS. I can do it in a simple text box just click on View as HTML and then using for example <sub> in order to write a ...
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Add text to shapefile in specific locations
I have downloaded a grid with the latitudes and longitudes of the world but the numbers (e.g 0°, 30°, 60°, 90°) are not shown in the shapefile. Is there a way to add this text manually and then merge ...
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Multi-line and Multi-labels formatting in QGIS
I am trying to apply different text formatting (bold and italics) to multi-line labels in QGIS. I tried HTML tags as seen below, it show what I wanted in the preview below but it deosn't work on the ...
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Rotate a table but not the text in a QGIS Layout
I'm working in a QGIS Layout and I have an special requirement: I have to rotate a table but I need that the text remains horizontal. When I check the rotation settings, the "Expression" option just ...
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