<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Catherine sent me some sample data and this was my response to her - it was just a matter of working in a projected CRS (as one should always do for cartography)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-------------------------------</div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><div class="moz-signature">’it just works’<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">QGIS 3.6<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">all I did was to select ‘curved’</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">note when you make maps you must use a projected CRS - in this case LO31 (‘HBKNO31’ in QGIS). Just maybe you were in 4326 and using units that don’t make sense with unprojected geometry?<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="C5C66848-94B2-4912-8E41-0788FC2D4022" class="" width="1115" height="746" src="cid:42B7646D-3270-4D1C-BF41-20EF72986FDB"></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div>
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 03 Apr 2019, at 12:22, Gavin Fleming <<a href="mailto:gavin@kartoza.com" class="">gavin@kartoza.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi Catherine<br class=""><br class="">Are you sure you haven’t made labels scale dependent and they’re disabled at that scale?<br class=""><br class="">You should be able to do it fine with the ’single label’ option. Those options don’t affect placement. <br class=""><br class="">If you’re prepared to share some or all of your data with me or the list that would help.<br class=""><br class="">Gavin<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 03 Apr 2019, at 12:03, Cath Souchon via qgis-za-user <<a href="mailto:qgis-za-user@lists.osgeo.org" class="">qgis-za-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hello,<br class=""><br class="">I am hoping someone can assist me. I work on a game reserve and am currently making a new map of all roads. I have captured (ground-truthed) all roads and now am working on the aesthetics part (symbolization & labeling). I am currently working on QGIS Version: 3.6.0 (Noosa).<br class=""><br class="">I feel like I have tried everything to get the labels to follow the curves of the roads at 1:20 000 but I am just not winning. I have watched & read what feels like many hours of videos and tutorials online but still no success. <br class=""><br class="">In the "Labels" section of the Road layer properties window I have tried selecting the "Curved" option under "Placement" but once selected all road names seem to disappear. I then tried different variations of the "Allowed positions" options but still no luck. I also tried adjusting the "Maximum angle between curved characters" but that didn't seem to make a difference, at higher numbers one or two letters of words appeared. <br class=""><br class="">For the above explanation I had been using "Single labels". Should I rather be trying this using "Rule-based labeling"? <br class=""><br class="">Below is a screenshot of a portion of the road network I am dealing with. The end goal is to get the map printed out (at about 1:20 000) on A0 or larger size.<br class=""><br class=""><image.png><br class=""><br class="">Any help on this would be hugely appreciated!<br class=""><br class="">Kind regards,<br class="">Catherine<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">qgis-za-user mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:qgis-za-user@lists.osgeo.org" class="">qgis-za-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-za-user<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>