Create point to a center of polyline

Question

I'm trying to create a points in the middle of polylines. The data is now in the form of shapefile. Is there an easy way to do this? Cheers, Sanna

Answer 1

use feature vertices to point in arcmap : Arctoolbox => data management tools => Features => Feature Vertices to point => select mid point type .

Answer 2

if you have qgis;

1. use SPIT - Shapefile to PostGIS Import Tool to adding your shapefile as postgis table
2. run this query:

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SELECT id, ST_AsText(ST_Centroid(the_geom)) as Cetroids FROM myPolyLines;

or

SELECT id,CENTER(the_geom) as Cetroids FROM myPolyLines;

ST_Centroid — Returns the geometric center of a geometry.

Computes the geometric center of a geometry, or equivalently, the center of mass of the geometry as a POINT. more info

it will return you centroid of your line then you can update or set it as new column or anything.

i hope it helps you...