[Qgis-us-user] Outline Maps

I’m not even a ‘user’ yet. I’m at the first step of what appears to be a very steep learning curve.

I am interested in outline maps of U.S. states & any & all countries. I’d like to mark city locations with a “X”. Can that be done simply?

Hi Dave ,

sure it can.
You will need the boundaries dataset e.g. can download from here
https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/
and the point (or area) dataset for the Cities. Then you load both layers in QGIS
, set the Symbology and choose a representation for the cities (can be X or whatever you like) e.g. see here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v5_lEdGpSw

Cheers
Karsten


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I’m not even a ‘user’ yet. I’m at the first step of what appears to be a very steep learning curve.

I am interested in outline maps of U.S. states & any & all countries. I’d like to mark city locations with a “X”. Can that be done simply?