[OSM-talk] how to apply OSM styles to maps using Quantum GIS

[Felipe Carrillo]

I am able to do all of that. I am talking about styles like www.openstreetmap.org maps. Can I send pictures through this list so I can send one?

--- On Mon, 1/18/10, Jukka Rahkonen <jukka.rahkonen at mmmtike.fi> wrote:

> From: Jukka Rahkonen <jukka.rahkonen at mmmtike.fi>
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] how to apply OSM styles to maps using Quantum GIS
> To: talk at openstreetmap.org
> Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 10:10 AM
> Felipe Carrillo <mazatlanmexico
> <at> yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > 
> > Hi:
> > Could someone point out to a step by step document
> where I can learn about map
> styles? I am trying to map county
> > roads and highways but my line shapes don't have any
> style and look plain. 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I suppose you have downoaded OSM shapefiles and opened them
> with QGIS.  Now
> select the layer and go through menu:
> Layer - Properties - Symbology.
> 
> If you would like to colour highways according to their
> type (at least
> Datafabrik shapes has this attribute) select next
> Legend type= Unique value
> Press Classify
> 
> You will see each road type coloured with unique
> colour.  You can change the
> colours, delete classes if you do not want then all on your
> map, play with
> styles etc. You can also save the style so you do not need
> to start from the
> beginning each time.
> 
> If you want better scale dependent rendering you will need
> to split the
> shapefile according to highway type so you can hide lower
> class roads while
> zoomed far.  But creating styles with QGIS is very
> intuitive and you will learn
> a lot by trial and error. 
> 
> Search from Yahoo! with words QGIS and style yields 50300
> hits.  Perhaps you
> could start from QGIS user guide http://qgis.sourceforge.net/docs/userguide.pdf
> 
> If you are trying to use QGIS OSM provider for editing OSM
> data directly I can't
> say anything about how to change the default styles with
> it.
> 
> -Jukka-
> 
> 
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