cartographyqgisshapefilesld
I have SLD's/lyr files with my shp/gdb files. They all have the same name except for the extension. Is it possible for me to force qgis to load the sld with the shp so that I don't need to manually go to properties, load style and ok it?
In arcmap I can just open the lyr instead of the .shp -is there a similar process for qgis?
Something you should try, which IMO is one of the cooler QGIS features, is the rule based rendering
If you export this as a SLD it will contain the style for each zoom level in a single SLD.
Note: You can't turn each rule on and off in the TOC but there is a feature request for that which hopefully might happen for 2.1.
Also Note: Labels can be done using the expression based labels using a CASE WHEN..THEN and the $scale variable but I don't know if that would export to SLD well.
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I'm assuming we're both talking about the SLD XML schema specified by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) for describing the appearance of map layers.
Unfortunately, you still have to load SLD styles manually for version 1.8 of QGIS.