Labelling roads, neatly, in QGIS

Labelling roads can be a bit of a nightmare for any cartographer, but in QGIS there are loads of ways to make it quick and easy if you know how - so that's what this video is about. In this video I used local road data for Great Britain (see link below) but the same method applies no matter where you are in the world.

This is a slightly longer video because it's a topic people often spend a lot of time on so I wanted to show how it's done, with a few useful styling tips included.

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