[Qgis-developer] Re: Line symbology-ng

[John C. Tull]

Hi Martin (and Borys),

On Mar 17, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Martin Dobias wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 8:23 PM, John C. Tull <jctull at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Martin,
>> 
>> I was wondering if it would be possible to have a line cap style that is open. In the current setup, you have to pick a cap, and this draws lines across line symbology at each line segment. This becomes unattractive with highway symbology as shown in the example below for the black outlined route. Maybe there is a workaround that I am not considering.
> 
> Hi
> 
> if I understand your question correctly, you need to enable symbol
> levels feature. That way you can force qgis to draw the black outline
> first and then draw the blue "fill" - the black breaks between
> features will be avoided. With symbol levels one can do also more
> fancy stuff - see attached image of (imaginary) highway junction -
> created from one shapefile with a Z-level field, using categorized
> renderer from symbology-ng.

Thanks for the explanation. That is very helpful!

John