🗺️ Making atlases better, one version at a time

Not everything works perfectly on the first try — sometimes the most obvious design ideas come late and suddenly! 🤣

Here’s one example: showing community boundaries so that people unfamiliar with cartography can at least find their own street.

In the second version (right), I added a subtle shading effect that keeps the map’s analytical context but visually highlights the selected community.

Each atlas is generated automatically in QGIS Report Designer — one atlas per city sector, with multiple communities.
That means this improvement wasn’t just “drawing a border manually,” but rather a data-driven programming and sorting task integrated into the atlas workflow.

🟩 Left: earlier version
🟩 Right: current improved version

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