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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thank you Szilard. I knew about the scale dependent visibility, but hadn’t considered creating layers with different size cities and different visibility levels. That should work just fine. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Joe<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> szilard.albert@gmail.com [mailto:szilard.albert@gmail.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Szilard Albert<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, April 03, 2016 7:30 AM<br><b>To:</b> Joe Stepansky<br><b>Cc:</b> qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Qgis-user] Question about city layer density<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Joe,<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>what you seem to need is "scale dependent visibility".<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>To achieve this, go to "layer properties", "general" tab, and enable "scale dependent visibility".<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Set your scales as preferred. This will show or hide all your cities, depending on the zoom level, <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>but you can make different layers with different classes of cities, and enable/disable their<br>visibility at different zoom levels.<br>regards,<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>Szilard<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 3 April 2016 at 21:01, Joe Stepansky <<a href="mailto:kq3f@comcast.net" target="_blank">kq3f@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I’m relatively new to QGIS, so forgive any naivete.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I’m working on a project displaying severe weather outlooks on a map of the US. It’s gone very well, but I have one issue. I’m using a layer which displays city locations and labels on the map. When zooming in to a specific state, all looks fine. But when I pull back to several states, the map can look cluttered with city points and labels.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>The labels don’t run into each other, there are just so many of them when I zoom out. Is there some way to get QGIS to automatically remove “random” cities (I really don’t care which ones) as the map is zoomed out, and restore them as the map is zoomed in?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Right now I’m manually using a filter to remove “excess” cities, but I can’t seem to find a nice, automated solution.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Thanks for any help!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Joe Stepansky<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Harrisburg, PA<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br>_______________________________________________<br>Qgis-user mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>List info: <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a><br>Unsubscribe: <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><br>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#4C1130'>Szilard Albert<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#4C1130'><a href="http://www.dayborogeo.com" target="_blank">www.dayborogeo.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#4C1130'>Phone: +61 7 3889 9505</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#4C1130'>Mobile: +61 403 860274</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>