On 12/12/2013 06:18 AM, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > Thanks for your replies. Please see below for my further questions. > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Alex Mandel <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >>> http://www.naturalearthdata.com/forums/topic/where-do-i-get-water-image-separately/ >> >> You'll have to make it yourself by grabbing the vector layer with oceans >> and overlaying that on top of whatever land you want, then style it >> yourself. > > Is it possible to get the same effect as seen in the official > downloads with water i.e it's somewhat lighter near the shores but > blends to a constant blue tint (i.e. not bathymetric) for the oceans. >
Yes that is a cartography trick, you can do it several ways, one is a gradient starting at the edge, the other is a series of one sided buffers with a gradient of colors applied to look like a seamless gradient. >>> http://www.naturalearthdata.com/forums/topic/border-thickness-problem-in-plain-cross-blend-hypso/ >>> >> Was that a compressed png? did you try an uncompressed one? are you sure >> you kept the same image resolution? Did you try loading it in QGIS and >> doing a gdal_translate. FYI JPEG might come out better but why can't you >> just keep it a tiff? > > Even if I do it to a TIFF the problem remains the same. As I pointed > out in the post above, even the official download page shows a blocked > strait of Gibraltar! > Which resolution image are you using and what scale are you trying to make a map at? Natural Earth is only intended for GLOBAL to whole Country/Region scales, anything more zoomed in and you'll need to go another route. Thanks, Alex _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
