Practical GIS

Styling waters

Let's style our waters by editing an existing style as follows:

1. Note down the color of the rivers in its SLD document (#003EBA).
2. Go to Data | Styles.
3. Initialize a new style by clicking on Add a new style.
4. Give it a short, but descriptive, name, like waterbodies.

 

 

5. Generate a polygon template by selecting Polygon in Generate a default style, and clicking on Generate.
6. Click on Submit to save the template.
7. Select the new style from the existing styles. Now we have access to the Layer Preview tab. Navigate to it, and select our water bodies layer as the preview layer.
8. Edit the stroke, and fill colors of the template. Optionally, edit the stroke width. Click on Apply, and check the result. Modify the fill color until you get ...