[QGIS-ZA-user] Curved Road Labeling Issue

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Catherine

I’ve attached a little QGIS project with an example of using curved labels.



Regards

Tim

> On 3 Apr 2019, at 11:22, Gavin Fleming via qgis-za-user <qgis-za-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Catherine
> 
> Are you sure you haven’t made labels scale dependent and they’re disabled at that scale?
> 
> You should be able to do it fine with the ’single label’ option. Those options don’t affect placement. 
> 
> If you’re prepared to share some or all of your data with me or the list that would help.
> 
> Gavin
> 
>> On 03 Apr 2019, at 12:03, Cath Souchon via qgis-za-user <qgis-za-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I am hoping someone can assist me. I work on a game reserve and am currently making a new map of all roads. I have captured (ground-truthed) all roads and now am working on the aesthetics part (symbolization & labeling). I am currently working on QGIS Version: 3.6.0 (Noosa).
>> 
>> I feel like I have tried everything to get the labels to follow the curves of the roads at 1:20 000 but I am just not winning. I have watched & read what feels like many hours of videos and tutorials online but still no success. 
>> 
>> In the "Labels" section of the Road layer properties window I have tried selecting the "Curved" option under "Placement" but once selected all road names seem to disappear. I then tried different variations of the "Allowed positions" options but still no luck. I also tried adjusting the "Maximum angle between curved characters" but that didn't seem to make a difference, at higher numbers one or two letters of words appeared. 
>> 
>> For the above explanation I had been using "Single labels". Should I rather be trying this using "Rule-based labeling"? 
>> 
>> Below is a screenshot of a portion of the road network I am dealing with. The end goal is to get the map printed out (at about 1:20 000) on A0 or larger size.
>> 
>> <image.png>
>> 
>> Any help on this would be hugely appreciated!
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> Catherine
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