<div dir="auto"><div>John and list,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 09:38 John Moyle via Qgis-user <<a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi<div>New to QGIS. I want to plot Victorian submarine telegraph cable interruptions under the Atlantic.  I know, what an Anorak!!</div><div>I have found a brilliant rasterfile of the seabed from GEBCO to use as a base layer. I have also collected all the data of cable failure, submarine earthquakes and volcanoes and am ready to make vector layers of all the data.</div><div>But what I can't find is a shapefile of the tectonic plates boundaries, just the boundary lines with no shading or text.</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I believe you have a basic misunderstanding of the nature of data within a GIS.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Generally the way QGIS (and most GIS) works is they "take" only data such as points lines and polygons and then the user develops styling on those to create the desire cartographic effect.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It would be most unusual to find shading or text in a shapefile.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Test in a shapefile is an attribute of some geometric feature. So line 377 might have an attribute that is "Mid Atlantic Ridge".</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">QGIS provides the ability to print the text attributes as labels, which can be styled in many useful ways for visualization purposes.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div> Everything I do find is rejected by QGIS as not being in a suitable format.</div><div>Help please!</div><div>John<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Dr John Moyle</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>
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