![]() Ask volunteers to name some of the animals they might see in this zoo. Project the map of the Lincoln Park Zoo, making sure that all students can view the details on the map. Show the grid on the map of Lincoln Park Zoo. ![]() Ask: How did you find your way around? What animals did you see? Explain that students will be using a zoo map from a famous zoo in Chicago, Illinois-the Lincoln Park Zoo.Ģ. Invite volunteers to share about any visit to a zoo they have made. Activate students’ prior knowledge about visiting and finding places at a zoo. You can also find us on Twitter, instagram and Facebook.1. If you liked this article, then please subscribe to our YouTube Channel for QGIS tutorials. We hope this article helped you learn how to easily add grids and grid frame to your map in QGIS. Play around with the options and see how they affect your map. The ‘ DRAW COORDINATES’ section has a number of options to allow you change the font, placement and colour of your coordinates. The next section under the ‘ MAP GRID PROPERTIES’ dialog allows you add coordinates to your map grids and frame.Ĭlick on the radio button beside the section labelled ‘ DRAW COORDINATES’ and QGIS will draw the longitudes and latitudes of grid line or marker on the edge of your map. Play around with the options to see the effect of each.ĭraw coordinates for your grids and frame The frame section has a number of other options for you to customize the frame style to your taste and needs. ![]() The first option allows you to choose the frame style, play around with them to see how each looks.Open the ‘ MAP GRID PROPERTIES’ dialog, scroll down to the second section labelled ‘ frame’.Follow the following steps and you should be done in less than a minute: To change the line thickness and style click on the arrow and QGIS will open its styling menu for you to fully customize the marker or line to your taste.Īdding grid frame to your map in QGIS is similar to adding grids to your map. If your grid style is solid or cross then you will see line style, but if your grid style is markers, you will see marker style.Ĭlick on the arrow and QGIS will open a colour wheel, choose the colour of your choice. You should find an option labelled ‘ line style’ or ‘ marker style’ depending on the grid style you chose above. To change your grid colour, open the modify grid dialog once again and scroll own. Click on each of them and see how they look then choose the one that best suits your need. Solid, Cross, Markers, Frames and annotations only. Click the drop down menu, you will find the following options: For example you can change the grid style, colour of grid lines, thickness of grid lines to mention just a few.Ĭlick on ‘ modify grid’, the first option that you will see under the modify grid dialog is grid type. QGIS has inbuilt functionality to allow you customize your grids. Conventionally, cartographers use 5 degrees to 15 degrees interval depending on the scale of the map. The grid interval refers to how much far away we want our grids to be.Ĭlick the drop down arrow beside the grid option. The grid has been added but we will not see it because we have not specified the interval. The next step is to add grids to our map.Ĭlick on ‘ map 1’ on the top right of the screen, Then go to ‘ item properties’ and scroll down till you see the Grid option. Now that the map has been imported to our print composer. Make the rectangle as large as you want your map to cover on the canvas. This performs the same function as the button.Ĭlick and drag your cursor in the print canvas as if you wanted to draw a rectangle. See the screenshot above for exact location of the button.Īlternatively, you can click on add item –> add map from the top menu. ![]() To do this, simply move your mouse to the top left corner of the QGIS interface and click on ‘ project –> new print layout.’ You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + P on your keyboard.Ĭlick the ‘ add a new map button’ on the left side of the print composer. If you don’t want to watch the video tutorial, then you can continue reading the text version below: Adding Grids to Your Map in QGISįirst thing you need to do is export your work on the QGIS canvas to the print composer.
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