To me, I don't know if this is a bug or not, but it is definitely not intuitive for new (or old) users...
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Giovanni Manghi <[email protected]> wrote: > This is tricky: > > if you select "advanced -> select scale field" *before* hitting > "classify" then the size symbols won't be scaled. > > If you do the other way it will work as expected. > > cheers > > -- Giovanni -- > > > On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 09:03 -0600, David Fawcett wrote: >> I can confirm that this is a problem in 1.8.0-Trunk. >> >> Graduated symbols used to 'just work', now they don't. If they do >> somehow still work, it is very unintuitive. I recently tried to show >> off some data using QGIS in a workshop that I was teaching. I had >> upgraded QGIS to show off the latest look and features. It was >> embarrassing when I couldn't do something simple like make graduated >> size symbols... >> >> Here is the version that I am using (on Win32) >> >> >> QGIS version >> 1.8.0-Trunk >> QGIS code revision >> 33b7e31 >> Compiled against Qt >> 4.7.1 >> Running against Qt >> 4.7.1 >> GDAL/OGR Version >> 1.8.1 >> GEOS Version >> 3.2.2 >> PostgreSQL Client Version >> 8.3.10 >> SpatiaLite Version >> 2.4.0 >> QWT Version >> 5.2.1 >> This copy of QGIS writes debugging outpute. >> >> >> David. >> >> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Caroline Rendon >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi Sake, >> > >> > This doesn't work for me. The symbols still appear in graduated colors, all >> > the same size - and the size doesn't seem to change when I change the >> > number, although it does between millimeters and map units. I'm sure >> > there's >> > just something I'm missing (I'm new to QGIS) but I can't figure it out. >> > Thanks for your help! >> > >> > Caroline >> > >> > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Sake Wagenaar <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi Caroline, >> >> >> >> If you use new symbology, the option to scale point symbols is hidden >> >> under the button 'Advanced'. With 'Size scale field' you can select a >> >> field. >> >> Next you have to change 'Size', to give the symbols the size you want. If >> >> the values are large, and you use millimeters, the symbols get much too >> >> large, even if you use the smallest possible value for Size (0,01). A >> >> better option is to use map units. >> >> >> >> Sake Wagenaar >> >> >> >> Op 11-11-2011 23:08, Caroline Rendon schreef: >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to create graduated symbols for a point layer, and the only >> >> option it will give me is by color, but I want graduated symbols by size. >> >> I >> >> was only able to get the color to work with "old symbology" because in new >> >> symbology the layer would just disappear altogether and I had to re-add >> >> it. >> >> So in old symbology I can get dots of different colors but not different >> >> sizes. Am I missing a plugin or something? I'm working in 1.7.1 on Win XP. >> >> Thanks in advance for your help!! >> >> >> >> Caroline Rendon >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Qgis-user mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Qgis-user mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> >> >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Qgis-user mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
