Wikipedia talk:Graphics Lab/Resources/QGIS/Get ready: Difference between revisions

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Okay, so I have a minor nitpick about the mapcolors section. Mainly: what it's describing isn't actually loading color maps (although that's part of it) but '''loading layer styles.''' Color maps can be part of a layer style file, but I think a layer style file can also include information for the other tabs in the ''Layer Properties'' window. If we really want to be correct about what we're saying there, we really should be showing people how to load '''color map files''', which are '''.txt''' (I'm not sure what format the data take in that txt though). In the ''Colormap'' tab, there's two icons in the top right: ''Load color map from file'', and ''Export color map to file''. Those are technically what need to be used to load in and save mapcolors. -[[User:MissMJ|MissMJ]] ([[User talk:MissMJ|talk]]) 23:14, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

:Miss, I spent too much time on it, I'm exhausted with QGis. I take a break of it for some times. Good luck~ [[User:Yug|Yug]] [[User talk:Yug|<small><font style="color:green;">(talk)</font></small>]] 12:33, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

::Hello MissMJ, thanks for your eagle eyes.

::I found what you are talking about. I was not aware of this possibility. The differences between mapcolor such:

<pre># QGIS Generated Color Map Export File

INTERPOLATION:DISCRETE

0,110,168,115,255,Custom color map entry

4000,138,108,82,255,Custom color map entry

</pre>

::and complex layer style files. I think it's still worth to rather teach to load '''layer style file''', since vector layers have complex styles & style files, but not these easier 'map color'.

::The tutorial currently just work with raster using mapcolor, that's true. But I'm collecting on my PC a nice, wikipedia friendly set of GIS vector files (see [[Wikipedia:Graphic_Lab/Resources/Gis_sources_and_palettes|our GIS sources]]) and layer styles to output ___location maps within 5 minutes. So learn how to load a layer style is still very need. Seems it is need to change our wording from colormap to layer style. You are right. [[User:Yug|Yug]] [[User talk:Yug|<small><font style="color:green;">(talk)</font></small>]] 04:20, 21 June 2011 (UTC)