Note: Alternatively, if you know the link to the file-base ArcGIS REST service (e.g. Here I’m looking at the General Plan of Kauai County. Go to the Geoportal and find your data of interest. These services already have symbology that they’ve defined so I don’t have to recreate them if not necessary. I use data from the State’s GIS portal and the City and County of Honolulu’s site a lot. Although I’m not sure if this hold true for OGC WFS layers – or at least it didn’t work when I tried it using OGC WFS from both a GeoServer and ArcGIS OGC WFS (see example further down in the post).įor this example, I’m using data from the Hawaii Statewide GIS Geoportal site. I find that when pulling in an ArcGIS WFS or Geoservice into QGIS, it will retain the symbology set by the WFS or Geoservice. Using ArcGIS Geoportal Geoservice or REST WFS to Create Symbology in QGIS
Anyway, here are some of my thoughts, tips, and working process for getting/creating symbology into QGIS.
#How to change color of symbols on arcgis 10.6 software
The nice thing I like about ArcGIS is that it has a lot of symbology sets that comes packaged with the software so you don’t spend lots of time creating them - you can easily make a map with all sorts of industry standard symbols. I find the hardest part in the work flow process of transitioning from ArcGIS to QGIS is getting ArcGIS-like symbology in QGIS. I’ve been trying hard to make the case for my team to transition over to using QGIS instead of ArcGIS, but to do that I need to come up with a compatible work flow process that would make the transition from ArcGIS to QGIS as smoothly as possible.