[Qgis-user] Re: Overview (inset map ) in map composer

[Lionel Roubeyrie]

HI,
and a select zoom area button in the print composer would be a great
thing too, setting manually extents is not as simple as in the map
canvas.
cheers

2010/10/28 Alister Hood <alister.hood at synergine.com>:
> Hi guys,
> There is a feature request for adding the map from the overview pane to
> the composer:
> https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/2348
> That person is after essentially the same result as you Marco, but they
> seem to have forgotten that the extent of the map view is almost always
> at least slightly different from the extent of the detail map in the
> print composer.  So the map extent rectangle shown in the overview would
> be wrong.
>
> It might be more flexible anyway to have a plugin add a rectangle to a
> normal map canvas on the print composer, showing the extents of another
> map canvas.  I think this would be a popular feature - does anyone know
> how feasible it would be?
>
> I imagine the other problem mentioned in that ticket (the difficulty
> around preserving/changing the layers shown on a map canvas in the
> composer) is something that should be addressed separately.
>
> Regards,
> Alister
>
>> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:42:10 +0000 (UTC)
>> From: Marco Tuckner <marcotuckner at public-files.de>
>> Subject: [Qgis-user] Re: Overview (inset map ) in map composer
>> To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
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>> > You can simply add another map to the canvas, and then set the
>> extents and
>> scale to only cover your area of interest.
>> Yes.
>> But how do I make them dynamically zoom and also display an extend
>> rectangle on
>> the overview map showing th extend of the detailed map?
>>
>> Thanks for following up.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Marco
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