[QGIS-ZA-user] Curved Road Labeling Issue

[Arthur TAUTE]

Hi,
I have never had an issue and always plot "curved" although I notice your roads are very squiggly and that may be the reason?  Try smoothing one just for an experiment 

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From: qgis-za-user [mailto:qgis-za-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Gavin Fleming via qgis-za-user
Sent: 03 April 2019 12:22 PM
To: South Africa QGIS user group <qgis-za-user at lists.osgeo.org>
Cc: Gavin Fleming <gavin at kartoza.com>
Subject: Re: [QGIS-ZA-user] Curved Road Labeling Issue

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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