Summary for setting up a QGIS project #
Prepare your map as far as possible in QGIS, as you want it to appear in your OpenGIS webmap. Specific tasks you can carry out to improve your OpenGIS include:
- Set title, background and highlight colours in
Project > Project Properties... - Give your layers human-friendly names in the
Layers Panel - Give your layer columns human friendly names via
Layer > Properties > Fields > Alias - Hide the columns you don’t want to appear in your popups by changing their Edit widget to “Hidden”
- If any of your fields contain image filenames, change their Edit widget to “Photo” to have the images appear in popups
- Style your layers, and set their scale-dependent visibility, if required
Run qgis2opengis from the Web menu, or via its icon.
The tabs at the top allow you to set up your project. All options are written to your QGIS project, so save your project if you want to keep these settings.
Excellent online guides #
For initial configurations, see the following pages:
- Set Layers https://qgis2web.github.io/qgis2web/#setLayers
- Set Style https://qgis2web.github.io/qgis2web/#SetStyles
- Set Labels https://qgis2web.github.io/qgis2web/#setLabels
- Set Basemap https://qgis2web.github.io/qgis2web/#setBasemaps
An alternative guide that explains how it works in a broad and discursive manner is published here https://www.qgistutorials.com/en/docs/3/web_mapping_with_qgis2web.html
SVG Marker #
qgis2opengis positions by default a circle with a white background with a black border under the SVG Marker, so as to make the map more readable.
The circle acquires the size of the marker so it will be enough to set the size of the marker.
There is no problem with icon overlap during the popup as the current icon will appear in front.
In this example you can see that the back icon is shown in front when queried by the popup.
