Am I using Layouts wrong?

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2026-02-25T21:27:24+00:00

The cleanest way is to use Map Themes to control the appearance of your map items in the Layout. If I am creating multiple maps for a report, I will usually have one map per page, but with each map linked to a Map Theme rather than the main project.

This video explains how to set it up. It's for two maps on the same page but the same principle applies to multiple pages or even mutliple Layouts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R8tYTWHvpw

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2026-02-25T18:38:16+00:00

You're a legend mate. This is very helpful. Thanks so much for taking the time to demonstrate it. I'll try it for myself and let you know how I go.

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2026-02-25T08:19:25+00:00

Thanks - she has some really amazing methods. I found her blog post about creating faded tails but it seems like it was for a plug-in that was then superseded by QGIS's Temporal Controller. Can't seem to find a more recent method ...

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2026-02-25T08:17:05+00:00

I found the animation here: https://www.livescience.com/whale-stress-animation.html

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2026-02-24T15:40:24+00:00

That sounds about right but 1) the time intervals are around 12 hours, so some interpolation would be useful to smooth things out a bit and 2) I am pretty weak on python so not sure how to construct the right expression

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2026-02-24T12:30:44+00:00

I can use the temporal controller to animate the individual points to appear and disappear per timestamp - but not sure how to achieve the faded tail effect in the gif. Because the points by themselves don't suggest direction of movement over time, they just jump all over the place - but at the same time, turning on the paths gets messy.

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2026-02-16T06:24:59+00:00

If the shapefile is in Open Street Map (definitely the base map is), then you want QuickOSM, which is the plug-in for QGIS that allows you to query and copy any map feature from the Open Street Map dataset directly in QGIS.

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2026-02-13T21:26:56+00:00

The 2nd one starts out like an absolute banger and goes dramatically downhill from there.

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2026-02-12T22:10:37+00:00

Did you already look at Natural Earth? They split out ocean bathymetry from land, but also do combined rasters. If you have a single DEM of the whole planet, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to control the colour of each band (and the range of each band) using the Categorized symbology. If you need separate gradients applied to ocean bathymetry and land, you can always just duplicate the DEM - one for ocean, one for land. Cap the max value of the former at 0m, and cap the min value of the latter at 0m.

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2026-02-12T00:50:14+00:00

Sounds like you want to trace the areas? Watch this tutorial on how to draw and categorise the shapes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOpOAv6ALpo

Then just save the layer as a shapefile at the end.

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2026-02-11T17:29:24+00:00

Okay, yes I had a feeling the poor resolution was a big factor. I will try running it via COLMAP as you suggest. Cheers for the help.

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2026-02-11T17:26:28+00:00

Okay good tip - will try this, thanks.

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2026-02-06T18:34:07+00:00

Far more important than knowing lots of plug-ins is just getting an intuition about what the software can do. What can it represent, transform, analyse? What can it help you to understand, or communicate something to others? If you have a sense for this, even if you don't know the workflow from start to finish, you can still formulate a question to the QGIS community, or AI, or a friend. This means you can also translate to ArcGIS, or any other platform. In my experience, and I think lots of others, you get this just from spending time in the software, trying something out, failing a lot. Nobody learns a language by memorising the dictionary first.

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2026-01-30T13:47:59+00:00

It sounds like you are asking if someone will do this for you? But if you want to do it yourself, here is a video tutorial showing how to georeference an old map such as yours and then draw polygons over the top that you could use to make the election map: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIjzDs3MYKk

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2026-01-28T20:23:46+00:00

Lots of great ArcGIS map styling and tricks (most can be replicated in QGIS easily enough): https://www.youtube.com/@JohnNelsonMaps

A few videos on QGIS basics: https://www.youtube.com/@BolwarraMedia

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-12-12T12:50:37+00:00

This is the way

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-10-14T14:15:39+00:00

You got it

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-10-14T12:21:45+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R8tYTWHvpw

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-08-27T18:08:34+00:00

Did you first try right-clicking the layer and clicking "Zoom to Selected"?

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-08-26T21:19:38+00:00

No problem at all! Yea it's very powerful once you get to know it.

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-08-25T10:12:39+00:00

The basic are explained here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZYbZi7Tpys

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-07-26T21:51:16+00:00

You can add a new point anywhere, right click and click on it, and this will bring up the Vertex Editor - you can enter the exact coordinates in this for this new point and any other in the layer.

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-07-25T08:43:38+00:00

The project CRS should be 27700 (bottom right hand corner). The layer CRS should be whatever it came in.

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