<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /></head><body><div data-html-editor-font-wrapper="true" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Thanks guys that is wonderful.<br><br>As in all things the options to do what you want is sort of buried in Qgis and once you know that its there you wind up kicking your for not spotting it before.<br><br>As you say  Style,, click on the lowest level of your line and the details for the line appear including Offset option,  I had just been looking at the the top options.<br><br>Dave<br><br><br>August 19 2016 9:49 AM, "McDonaldR" <<a target="_blank" tabindex="-1" href="mailto:%22McDonaldR%22%20<mcdonaldr@angus.gov.uk>">mcdonaldr@angus.gov.uk</a>> wrote:<blockquote><div><div lang="EN-GB" vlink="purple"><div style="page: WordSection1"><p style='margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt;font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='font-size: 13.0pt;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";color: #1F497D'>Here’s another answer – illustrated this time: <a target="_blank" tabindex="-1" rel="external nofollow" href="http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/140685/representing-overlapping-polylines-in-qgis?noredirect=1&lq=1"> http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/140685/representing-overlapping-polylines-in-qgis?noredirect=1&lq=1</a> and with some code to help automate it.</span></p><p style='margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt;font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='font-size: 13.0pt;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";color: #1F497D'><span data-ms="o:p"> </span></span></p><p style='margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt;font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='font-size: 13.0pt;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";color: #1F497D'>Ross</span></p><p style='margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt;font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='font-size: 13.0pt;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";color: #1F497D'><span data-ms="o:p"> </span></span></p><div><div style="border: none;border-top: solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding: 3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p style='margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt;font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"'><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Qgis-user [<a target="_blank" href="mailto:mailto:qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">mailto:qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>McDonaldR<br><b>Sent:</b> 19 August 2016 09:27<br><b>To:</b> 'Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)'; <a target="_blank" href="mailto:dave.potts@pinan.co.uk">dave.potts@pinan.co.uk</a><br><b>Cc:</b> <a target="_blank" href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Qgis-user] drawing transport networks sharing lines</span></p></div></div><p style='margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt;font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"'><span data-ms="o:p"> </span></p><p style='margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt;font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='font-size: 13.0pt;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";color: #1F497D'>You could try adjusting the X and/or Y offset for each tube line although it doesn’t draw them exactly parallel.  In my example my line width is 2 units and I have duplicated the lines and offset one layer 1 unit and the other -1 unit</span></p><p style='margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt;font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='font-size: 13.0pt;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";color: #1F497D'><span data-ms="o:p"> </span></span></p><p style='margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt;font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='font-size: 13.0pt;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";color: #1F497D'>See a similar question on stackexchange: <a target="_blank" tabindex="-1" rel="external nofollow" href="http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/53654/how-to-display-overlapping-lines"> http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/53654/how-to-display-overlapping-lines</a> </span></p><p style='margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt;font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='font-size: 13.0pt;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";color: #1F497D'><span data-ms="o:p"> </span></span></p><p style='margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt;font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"'><img border="0" width="542" height="437" class="lazy lazy-inited" style="display: inline;" alt="" src="cid:image001.png@01D1F9FE.E1FABB50"></p><p style='margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt;font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='font-size: 13.0pt;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";color: #1F497D'><span data-ms="o:p"> </span></span></p><p style='margin: 0cm;ma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