Say you want to display a feature specific image on each page of a QGIS Atlas.

In my example I have a layer with two features:

{
  "type": "FeatureCollection",
  "features": [
    {
      "type": "Feature",
      "properties": {
        "image_path": "/tmp/1.jpeg"
      },
      "geometry": {
        "type": "Polygon",
        "coordinates": [[[9,53],[11,53],[11,54],[9,54],[9,53]]]
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "Feature",
      "properties": {
        "image_path": "/tmp/2.jpeg"
      },
      "geometry": {
        "type": "Polygon",
        "coordinates": [[[13,52],[14,52],[14,53],[13,53],[13,52]]]
      }
    }
  ]
}

And I also have two JPEG images, named “1.jpeg” and “2.jpeg” are in my /tmp/ directory, just as the “image_path” attribute values suggest.

The goal is to have a map for each feature and its image displayed on the same page.

Create a new print layout, enable Atlas, add a map (controlled by Atlas, using the layer) and also an image.

For the “image source” enable the data-defined override and use attribute(@atlas_feature, 'image_path') as expression.

That’s it, now QGIS will try to load the image referenced in the feature’s “image_path” value as source for the image on the Atlas page. Yay kittens!

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