4 - QGIS 3.2 Tutorial - Depicting a Smooth Route or Path

by Konrad M. Lawson (@kmlawson) for the Institute for Transnational & Spatial History (spatialhistory.net), University of St Andrews.


Using a simple raster background from Natural Earth Data, this shows you how to depict a route on a map given a set of points and then smoothing that route to give it a more curved appearance with the use of the "geometry generator" in the symbology properties of your route layer.

Thanks to Klas Karlsson whose wonderful YouTube tutorials for QGIS has a more detailed video on the variety of things you can do with the feature covered here:
   • QGIS User 0008 - Simple Organic Vecto...  

Data for base layer: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/

Downloads - Large Scale Data 1:10m - Raster -
Natural Earth 1 with Shaded Relief and Water (308MB)