StyleViewer Panel

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

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

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Alternatively, you can open the panel using View > Panels > StyleViewer 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:

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

Currently, StyleViewer 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 StyleViewer 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.