[Qgis-user] Symbolizing a discrete or a boolean raster (Stéphane Henriod)

Richard McDonnell richard.mcdonnell at opw.ie
Tue Jan 10 09:14:41 PST 2017


Harrissou,

Not sure if this is a solution, or if anyone has already given you this 
answer, but.... if you know a classified raster has *50* values, which 
you wish to style individually, you could try setting*:
*

  * *Colour Interpolation* to *Linear*
  * *Mode *to*Equal Interval*
  * *Classes *to*51 *(one more than the Max)

I have only just tested this on a raster with 4 values and its worked 
for me!
Hope this helps!

Regards,

Richard.

On 10/01/2017 09:49, DelazJ wrote:
> Hi Stéphane,
>
> 2017-01-10 4:02 GMT+01:00 Stéphane Henriod <s at henriod.info 
> <mailto:s at henriod.info>>:
>
>     Hi Chris
>
>     this is very nice! I indeed didn't know this trick and will
>     certainly use it again in the future!
>
>     However... :-)
>
>     I am currently teaching QGIS to beginners and this for sure is not
>     an appropriate method for them (especially in the case you have to
>     generate the symbology file through a script)!
>
>     Since the user can style continuous rasters with some
>     "button-clicking", I believe the same option should be available
>     for discrete rasters as well.
>
>     I am thus wondering if anyone else than me sees it as a priority
>     for QGIS? If yes, how to motivate the developers to take it for
>     the next release and / or how much would such a development cost?
>     (I unfortunately don't have the competences to do it myself)
>
> There have been some work done in the raster properties dialog in the 
> upcoming 3.0. I don't know if your concern was covered though.
> If you want, you can move the question to the developer's list 
> <http://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/mailinglists.html#qgis-developers-list> 
> and discuss whether/how this can be implemented (and its requirements).
>
> Regards,
> Harrissou
>
>     Thanks again and cheers!
>
>     Stéphane
>
>
>     Le mardi 10 janvier 2017, Chris House <housec01 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:housec01 at gmail.com>> a écrit :
>
>         Hi Stéphane,
>
>         I don't know if this is what you are looking for or not but I
>         have a method of classifying rasters by color based on a set
>         (standard) colors.  I created a spreadsheet that has several
>         required columns, value, red, green, blue...and you can have
>         an optional field for a display value.  So say value 1 is
>         water you can use that last column to name that value so that
>         in the QGIS layer tree and in legend it says Water instead of
>         value 1.
>
>         save the spreadsheet as a csv and change the extension to .txt
>         instead of .csv.
>
>         I then go into the symbology section of the raster choose
>         singleband pseudocolor. Use the folder to browse to your text
>         file and click add.  There is a format for this text file.  It
>         is below.  If you need me to email it I will do that in direct
>         email.
>
>         # QGIS Generated Color Map Export File
>         INTERPOLATION:EXACT
>         -9999,0,0,0,255,NoData
>         0,176,176,176,255,Non-Forested
>         15,234,255,191,255,10 <=  CC < 20
>         25,187,230,149,255,20 <=  CC < 30
>         35,140,201,109,255,30 <=  CC < 40
>         45,98,176,74,255,40 <=  CC < 50
>         55,59,153,43,255,50 <= CC < 60
>         65,0,128,0,255,60 <=  CC < 70
>         75,15,92,11,255,70 <=  CC < 80
>         85,17,61,12,255,80 <=  CC < 90
>         95,16,36,12,255,90 <=  CC <= 100
>
>         In my example if I don't assign a value it gets ignored by
>         QGIS.  If you are wondering how to assign unique colors to say
>         200 unique values...just script it.  I have done this and as
>         long as you have the number of unique values you want and to
>         make them unique in the script it works.
>
>         I hope this helps.  I know it isn't a "button" but to be
>         honest I like this better.  If you already knew this...well
>         then maybe it will help someone out in the future.
>
>         --Chris
>
>         On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 3:00 PM,
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>                1. Re: Symbolizing a discrete or a boolean raster
>             (Stéphane Henriod)
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>             ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>             Message: 1
>             Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 23:07:36 +0600
>             From: Stéphane Henriod <s at henriod.info>
>             To: Enrico Fiore <enricofiore at libero.it>
>             Cc: qgis-user <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>
>             Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Symbolizing a discrete or a
>             boolean raster
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>
>             Hi
>
>             thanks for following up!
>
>             It actually does part of the job!
>
>             Using *Color interpretation: Exact*, I can indeed input
>             the exact values I
>             want to display (1,5 and 10) and all other pixels are hidden.
>
>             HOWEVER,
>
>             this still feels like a workaround:
>
>                - In the case of a discrete raster with many (> 50)
>             unique values, I do
>                not want to input all of them manually
>                - In some cases, I do not know in advance all the
>             unique values of my
>                raster
>                - If I click on *Classify*, QGIS will choose X values
>             (based on the
>                number of classes and the classification method
>             (continuous or equal
>                interval)), which no longer match the "exact" values of
>             my raster. It
>                doesn't really make sense to classify a discrete rendering
>
>             So I would say, we still need a render type "discrete
>             raster" which offers
>             the function to "retrieve all unique values" (and
>             automatically apply a
>             discrete color ramp)
>
>             Attached a (fake) test dataset.
>
>             Thanks and cheers
>
>             Stéphane
>
>
>             Le lundi 9 janvier 2017, Enrico Fiore
>             <enricofiore at libero.it> a écrit :
>
>             > Hi,
>             > Sorry I can't do test, but if you use exact in color
>             interpolation
>             > parameter?
>             >
>             > Cheers
>             >
>             > Enrico
>
>
>             Le lundi 9 janvier 2017, Stéphane Henriod <s at henriod.info>
>             a écrit :
>
>             > Hi
>             >
>             > unfortunately this is doing quite something different!
>             >
>             > If I have a raster with 10 Landcover classes
>             (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10) and I
>             > want to display only 1,5 and 10, using *Discrete *(1:
>             red, 5: yellow, 10:
>             > blue) the following will happen:
>             >
>             > All pixels between 1 and 4 will be red
>             > All pixels between 5 and 9 will be yellow
>             > All pixels with 10 will be blue
>             >
>             > In this sense, the pixels are indeed not interpolated,
>             but this still is
>             > not the behavior I am expecting when styling discrete
>             rasters.
>             >
>             > A "style discrete raster" function should offer the
>             following:
>             >
>             >    - Automatically recover all unique values from the raster
>             >    - Only display the pixels to which the user has
>             explicitly assigned a
>             >    color
>             >
>             > But thanks for your hint, this can be helpful in other
>             cases!
>             >
>             > Cheers
>             >
>             > Stéphane
>             >
>             >
>             > Le lundi 9 janvier 2017, Enrico Fiore <enricofiore at libero.it
>             > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','enricofiore at libero.it');>>
>             a écrit :
>             >
>             >> Hi,
>             >> I think that the solution is in the QGIS documentation,
>             that you can read
>             >> here:
>             http://docs.qgis.org/2.14/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_r
>             <http://docs.qgis.org/2.14/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_r>
>             >> aster/raster_properties.html#band-rendering
>             >> you have to use *Singleband pseudocolor *and set color
>             interpolation to
>             >> Discrete.
>             >>
>             >> Enrico
>             >>
>             >>
>             >> ----Messaggio originale----
>             >> Da: "Stéphane Henriod" <s at henriod.info>
>             >> Data: 09/01/2017 6.30
>             >> A: "qgis-user"<qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>
>             >> Ogg: [Qgis-user] Symbolizing a discrete or a boolean raster
>             >>
>             >> Dear all
>             >>
>             >> As much as I love QGIS and use it in my everyday life,
>             there is one
>             >> feature that I find particularly annoying: the styling
>             of discrete rasters.
>             >>
>             >> Basically, if I have a raster layer consisting of
>             discrete landcover
>             >> values (1: water, 2: forest, 3: built-up), it seems
>             that there is no easy
>             >> way to style it. QGIS will assume that the data is
>             continuous and basically
>             >> interpolate the color between each value, which leads
>             to the following
>             >> issues:
>             >>
>             >> Let's say I want to display only water and built-up
>             (values 1 and 3),
>             >> water in blue and built-up in grey. QGIS will still
>             display the forests,
>             >> using a color somewhere "between" blue and grey. My
>             only left option is to
>             >> process the raster to actually replace all the 2 with
>             NoData, which is
>             >> highly unpractical...
>             >>
>             >> Same if I have a boolean raster (only 0 and 1 values).
>             QGIS will by
>             >> default make a color ramp from 0 to 0.9999.
>             >>
>             >> Also, the whole rather feels like a work-around for a
>             missing feature.
>             >>
>             >> I dream of a feature similar to this one from ArcGIS:
>             >> http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index
>             <http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index>.
>             >>
>             html#/representing_unique_categories_such_as_land_use/009t00000074000000/
>             >> where all unique values are styled independently and
>             where I can easily
>             >> skip the values I don't want to see on my map.
>             >>
>             >> I asked a question here:
>             >>
>             http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/194116/qgis-style-a-d
>             <http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/194116/qgis-style-a-d>
>             >> iscrete-raster
>             >>
>             >> and opened a ticket here:
>             >> http://hub.qgis.org/issues/14845
>             <http://hub.qgis.org/issues/14845>
>             >>
>             >> But none has gotten lots of attention yet... Am I the
>             only one to be
>             >> annoyed by this? If no, please raise your hand and
>             let's try to get some
>             >> momentum and see how to push this feature forward!
>             >>
>             >> Thanks a lot in advance!
>             >>
>             >> Cheers
>             >>
>             >> Stéphane
>             >>
>             >>
>             >
>
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