AW: [Qgis-user] Two or more maps in the print composer

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 01:55 +0100, Borys Jurgiel wrote:
> W wtorek 17 luty 2009 roku o godzinie 14:33:13 łaskaw(a) był(a) Pan(i) rzec:
> > @Borys: Either I don't understand how to do it or what I am asking for
> > is still not possible (as Marco said).
> > 
> > I want to have a small overview map of the study area (e.g. the
> > coastline vector map) and in the big map the land cover map (CORINE
> > let's say).
> > 
> > I select one map frame in the composer and then activate some layer in
> > the legend. Then I select the other map frame (in the composer) and I
> > activate some other map in the legend. Both maps (map frames) in the
> > princomposer are updated and show the same map.
> 
> Let's assume your big map scale is 1:100 000 and the overview scale 
> is 1:1 000 000.
> 
> Go to the first tab of the layer properties window and switch the 'Enable scale 
> dependent rendering' on. 
> For the CORINE layer set scale ranges: min=1 max=500000
> and for the coastline set: min=500000 max=100000000 (or anything very high)
> 
> Now if the scale is =< 1:500 000 only the coastline is displayed. If is >= 1:500 
> 000, only the CORINE. Of course it works in the map canvas too, so don't be 
> surprised that one of the layers disappears from it.


Didn't try that yet but makes sense!

Thanks, Nikos