Project: QGIS

Version: 2.16.0

Feature: Improvements to map zooming

QGIS 2.16 brings improvements to the way you can zoom in and out of the map canvas.

  • Holding down ctrl while using the mouse wheel to zoom in or out now results in a finer zoom. This behavior brings canvas into line with composer.
  • Pressing Ctrl + or Ctrl - performs an immediate zoom in/out on the map canvas
  • When certain map tools are active, you can perform a web-map style zoom by holding down shift and dragging a rectangle on the map to zoom to that area. This is enabled for the map tools which are not selection tools (since they use shift for adding to selection), and edit tools.
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This feature was developed by Nyall Dawson (North Road)