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QGIS Quick Start Guide
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QGIS Quick Start Guide

by Andrew Cutts
January 2019
Beginner
164 pages
3h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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Styling line data – rivers layer

Select the majrivers layer from the top of the Later Styling panel. We will use this layer to create a Line style that consists of two colors: a fill color and an outline color. Select a Single symbol in the Layer Styling Panel. Beneath this Symbology, click on the green plus icon to add a new simple line. You should now have two lines showing, which will look similar to the following:

Styling the river as lines

Change the top simple line to a blue color of thickness 0.260000 and the bottom to a gray/black color of thickness 0.460000. Click on Line (directly above these two lines) to highlight the symbol. This ...

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