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Create Material Design Maps Online

This document provides a 10 step tutorial for creating a material design map using QGIS Composer. The steps include adding a gradient background, material design cards with drop shadows, a map within a box, title and menu boxes with custom fonts and styles, a legend, attribute table, description, sources block, icons, and credits. The goal is to demonstrate how to design an attractive map layout following material design principles.

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Create Material Design Maps Online

This document provides a 10 step tutorial for creating a material design map using QGIS Composer. The steps include adding a gradient background, material design cards with drop shadows, a map within a box, title and menu boxes with custom fonts and styles, a legend, attribute table, description, sources block, icons, and credits. The goal is to demonstrate how to design an attractive map layout following material design principles.

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Material Desing Map

With Qgis Composer


Requierements :

I recommand to use Google Fonts that you can find at [Link]

Add a gradient background


Change background color with gradient fill and use for example these colors:

#07d39d
#0998d2

2
Add Material Design Cards
Create boxs with add rectange, without border
but draw effect:

Use drop shadow


- Offset 2 Millimeter
- Blur radius to 8
- Transparency to 50%

3
Add a map into the map box
Add a map withadd new mapwith the same size of the map box.

Then change map background if needed and set the map position correctly.

4
Add a title box
Add text withadd new label, set a white background and check Render as HTML then add this html code:

<body style="padding-left : 20px; padding-top : 10px;">


<h1 style="font-family : roboto black; color : #07d39d;">MATERIAL DESIGN MAP</h1>
<h3 style="font-family:roboto; font-weight:200;">POPULATION DISTRIBUTION</h3>
</body>

5
Set Menu / Legend box
Change the side box color fill and add the legend with Add new legend, remove background color from legend set the font
color to white. (Hide layer name for this example)

Center title alignement and legend block

6
Add attribute table
Add attribute table with Add new legend, chose the appropriate layer.

In attributes button:

- Let only used attributes


- In this example align first attribute to Middle left and second to Middle
right
- Add sorting by attribute

Set maximum rows to correspond with your needs, set Display header to
No header, remove background color and grid then set font color to white.

Center attribute table with side box.

Add a description block


Add a description block with Add new label, and add your text based on
this code:

<p style="font-family : roboto; color : #07d39d; ">DESCRIPTION</p>


<p style="font-family:roboto; font-size: 12px; color : white;">Distribution of
population in Reunion Island from IGN - GEOFLA 2015</p>

7
Add a Sources / Details block
Add a last block with Add new label, and add your text
based for example on this code:

Created on : [% month( now() ) || ' - ' || day( now() ) ||


' - ' || year( now() )%]

SOURCES Your map details


Designed by Your Name

8
And last step, add icons for map decoration
Add an elipse with add shape, set draw effect to drop shadow with:

- Offset to 3
- Radius to 10
- Transparency to 50%

Add over circle an SVG icon of your choice for example compass add menu icon.

9
Well Done!
Youve got a materialized map

This tutorial is proudly created with open source softwares like Qgis, inkscape and LibreOffice.
Thanks to Anita Graser for her help and for her amazing book Qgis Map Design.

Mickael HOARAU
[Link]

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