Straight and curved arrows with QGIS


Arrow symbol layers were introduced in QGIS 2.16.


  1. Hello underdark, great screencast, very informative. It helps make an attractively shaped line to craft it for yourself.

    I was actually just sitting down to create a map using your last solution, with a third point defined for each line. I’m preferring the database solution, since I can manipulate the data using SQL such that the normal two points in the line can be matched to something that matters, such as depart and arrive on a vehicle route, or origin-destination on some sort of flow.


  2. This technique does not work for me when using shapefiles. When I make the node on the arrow and drag the node, straight lines appear between the new node and the end node. I saved the shapefile and a GeoPackage, put it on the map, and it curved the arrows without also creating the straight lines

    • Something else must have gone wrong there. It makes no difference if the data is stored in a Shapefile, GeoPackage or other format.

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