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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I’m relatively new to QGIS, so forgive any naivete.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for any help!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Joe Stepansky<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Harrisburg, PA<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>