[Qgis-user] Presque Isle State Park Map (Erie, PA)

[Greg Troxel]

James Kolakowski via QGIS-User <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> writes:

> I am currently using QGIS to make a map of Presque Isle State Park in Erie,
> PA, but need help with making a map (North Arrow, Scale Bar, Legend, etc).

Are you doing this as an indivdual hobbyist, as your use of gmail
suggests, or are you part of park management, or ?  (OK to ask for help
either way, but I think organizational use asking for help should use
organizational emails.)

> I tried experimenting with QGIS to solve the issue myself and used Internet
> AI tutorials to solve the issue, but none of those methods worked.  Any
> help I receive would be greatly appreciated.

I am shocked, shocked that "AI tutorials" were not useful.  Most
egregiously, they seem not to have made you aware of the actual
documentation.   I suggest that you and everybody else not encourage
"AI" and all its problems by looking at them.

Some actual human-written correct content to read:

  https://docs.qgis.org/3.44/en/docs/user_manual/index.html

and specifically:

  https://docs.qgis.org/3.44/en/docs/user_manual/print_layout/index.html

What you are trying to do is not odd, so it should be straightforward.
I recommend that you have a project where you only have layers that you
want in the map.  That should ease the process of displaying the Legend.
I forget the customization details, but pretty much everything I used to
know was in the manual.