Learn QGIS - Fourth Edition

Line labels

For line layers, we can choose from the following placement options:

• Parallel for straight labels that are rotated according to the line orientation
• Curved for labels that follow the shape of the line
• Horizontal for labels that keep a horizontal orientation, regardless of the line orientation

For further fine-tuning, we can define whether the label should be placed above the line, on the line, or below the line, and how far above or below it should be placed using label distance. We can also utilize a setting shown in the following in the rendering tab called Merge connected lines to avoid duplicate labels. This does a reasonable job of reducing the labels on majrivers.shp, but it is still very noisy, as shown in the following ...