[QGIS-ZA-user] Curved Road Labeling Issue

[Chris Berens]

My experience is that even with show all labels activated I still drop
labels with the curved options...but my opinion doesn't count as I am STILL
using 2.18 (!)

On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 at 13:55, Arthur TAUTE via qgis-za-user <
qgis-za-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> 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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> -----Original Message-----
> 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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