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Style Viewer Panel

GeoCat Bridge offers a way to preview a layer style (symbology) in several different formats using the Style Viewer.

You can open the Style Viewer panel by clicking Bridge Style Viewer from the GeoCat Bridge menu:

Style Viewer menu

Alternatively, you can open the panel using View → Panels → Bridge Style Viewer in the QGIS menu bar.

A dockable panel will now be displayed (initially on the right side of the screen) that looks similar to this:

Style Viewer

If you wish to close the Style Viewer, click the close button (x) in the upper-right corner of the panel or uncheck the View → Panels → Bridge Style Viewer item in the QGIS menu bar.

Currently, Style Viewer supports the following style formats:

  • SLD (XML): used by GeoServer
  • MapServer style (plain text): also known as Mapfile
  • Mapbox style (JSON): used for vector tiles
  • GeoStyler (JSON)

The Style Viewer is context-aware, meaning that it will show style previews for the currently selected layer in the QGIS Layers panel:

For more information about how Bridge handles symbology and which style elements are supported, please read the Supported Symbology section.

Note

  • If the layer is not supported by Bridge (see Supported layer types), nothing will be shown.
  • If there were issues during the style conversion process, these will be displayed on the Warnings tab.