[Qgis-user] Detail-level of exported maps

Patrick Dunford enzedrailmaps at gmail.com
Thu Feb 4 16:42:21 PST 2021


You can control the display of labels in the GIS and composer by 
specifying scale based rules for labelling

On 5/02/21 2:01 am, Frederik Franke wrote:
>
> Dear QGIS users,
>
> I’m relatively new to QGIS and need a quick help to export a map (as 
> pdf) from the QGIS composer.
>
> My map contains an OpenStreetMap background map and I have the problem 
> that the exported OpenStreetMap is much too detailed (e.g. hundreds of 
> village names are included with a very small font size). When I change 
> the export resolution from 300 dpi to 72 dpi in the composer I can 
> circumvent this problem. Only big cities are labeled now and the city 
> names are in an appropriate size. Unfortunately the map has a very bad 
> resolution now (I can see single pixels when I set the pdf-zoom factor 
> to 100 percent).
>
> How can I export a map with a lower detail-level but a good resolution?
>
> Thanks and best
>
> Fred
>
>
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