[Qgis-user] QGIS 1.8: How to produce a sheet line system map?

[Brad Nesom]

to shorten the process(and make the system a bit more uniform).
What I do is
1. decide on the paper size I want,
2. create a shapefile with that size polygon,
3. scale, rotate and move that polygon up to world coordintates,
4. copy that polygon and move each one along alignment.
5. Edit the page information (attributes) for each polygon.

That way all my pages have the same scale,

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 9:17 AM, spatialjoe <spatialjoe at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> just for the records:
> To get the bounding boxes of my 25 individually composed maps
> (portrait/landscape orientation) I did the following:
>
> [0. Save every single map as a Map composer template in the same folder]
>
> 1. Manually open every template and copy the coordinates of the extent
> (x/ymin; y/xmax) along with the Mapnumber into a table (i.e. two records per
> map number= 2 points (min/max)) and save this table as csv-file.
> [This could also be done by a little python script "crawling" the individual
> template files and writing out the coordinates plus map number (=file name)]
>
> 2. Load the csv-file into QGIS to create a point shapefile and save it.
>
> 3. Switch to gvSIG, load the point shapefile and use the rectangle-digitizer
> to manually draw bounding boxes into a new polygon shapefile by snapping to
> the two points with the same map number and enter the corresponding map
> number in the polygon shapefile.
>
> Puuh, not that complicated but not that straightforward also.
> Would I do it for 250 maps?
>
> Best,
>
> Johannes
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