[Qgis-user] How to limit the extent of my map

[Gino Pirelli]

I don't know if ther's a plugin for that... but you can do it. Link an
event to mapCanvas class extent change checking condition and setting
extent if condition is outside


On 12 December 2013 03:04, Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello. I have recently entered the GIS/QGIS world. Basically I have an
> interest in astronomy and want to produce an eclipse visibility map
> for India. (Apologies that my interests in GIS are for now not any
> deeper than that...)
>
> I only want to produce the map for India and decided upon a "square"
> region bounded by 5 N ~ 40 N and 65 E ~ 100 E. However I'm not sure
> how to limit the extent of the map in QGIS. The slightest drag or the
> slightest click with the hand tool seems to change the extent. Now
> clicking to zoom/unzoom is fine but I really don't want QGIS to spend
> time updating the rest of the globe rendering and more than that in my
> final output I only want a PDF or PNG showing the above region.
>
> I did search the QGIS PDF manual for the keyword "extent" but whatever
> I found did not seem to answer what I was looking for. I am afraid to
> go to gis.stackexchange for fear that a noob question might be
> downvoted. So I turn to the mailing list. Thanks for your patience and
> help!
>
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> Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा
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