[Qgis-user] Drawing of objects from a shape file

[Dave Potts]

On 08/06/14 09:53, Andrea Peri wrote:
Hi Andrea

Is the drawing controled by the ordering of the polygons in the shapefile ?

So the 1st entry will be draw first, second entry entry next etc

Dave.
>
> Another solution is get an useful utility from mapserver site. It 
> reorganize the shape putting the smallest after the largest.
>
> Regards.
>
> Il 08/giu/2014 10:51 "Andrea Peri" <aperi2007 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:aperi2007 at gmail.com>> ha scritto:
>
>     You could do a light transparency to show the others under.
>
>     Il 08/giu/2014 10:42 "Dave Potts" <dave.potts at pinan.co.uk
>     <mailto:dave.potts at pinan.co.uk>> ha scritto:
>
>         Hi list
>
>         I have a shape file with several overlapping ploygons, is
>         there any way of telling qgis which order to draw the polygons in?
>
>         Naturally I would a like the smallest polygon to be drawn on
>         top of the larger polygons so thats its possible to all of the
>         polygons at one time.
>
>         The data has a layer id which has a different value for each
>         of the polygons, could I use this to force the ordering of the
>         drawing?
>
>
>         regards
>
>         Dave.
>
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