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A set of ordered co-ordinates that represent the shape of geographic features too narrow to be displayed as an area at the given scale (contours, street centrelines, or streams), or linear features with no area (county boundary lines)

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How to find length of transmission line for all possible configurations between 9 villages?

My dissertation is on designing transmission line using ArcGIS between 9 villages of Uttarakhand. How can I find the length of transmission line for all possible configurations between all the ...
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Why won't lines from GPX simplify/generalize/smooth?

I am working with GPX data. I imported them to ArcGIS by 'GPX to feature' and then I created lines from these points. I am trying to smooth (or simplify) the lines now, but the tools 'smooth line' and ...
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How can I create a line with three points with Python in QGIS?

I'm new to Python and I'm having some dificulties. I want to create a simple layer with a line in the console of QGIS with Python. How can I do that?
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QGIS and Python - create line with multiple points in postgis

How can I create a line, with Python functions, with many points that are records in Postgis? Thank you
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Creating a 3D line feature based on 3D point features

In ArcGIS, is it possible to create a 3D line feature by drawing a line that connects 3D point features?
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In QGIS can I show just the lines in a Postgis query? How can I do that?

I have three tables in Postgresql, each table with one layer of lines. I want to show the path of an initial line to another final. Is it possible executing a SQL query? Thanks My three tables are ...
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Problems using v.split in SEXTANTE toolbox to split lines

I got this error： Or don't click "open output file after running algorithm", but there is no new shapefile created on my desktop. How to solve this problem and split lines at a specified distance？ ...
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How to split line at a specified distance and getting coordinates of start and end points of each line segment？

I tried v.split in GRASS： and my notebook ran a lot of time but showed this error：bad allocation, then I click "OK", and got nothing. Are there other ways to split lines？and I hope to get 2 new ...
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How to Blink a line on a map similarly like a point blinking on map through lat lon points

how to blink a line on a map which is formed by lat lon points through linestring from database the points(lat,lon) comes which is stored in form of MultiLineString. similarly like how a point ...
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How to determine if a line is within a polygon or if it exceeds the polygon boundaries?

So I have a polygon layer and a line layer and a point layer... Each line goes to the centroid of 1 polygon, some of those lines come from within the same polygon, some come from outside of that ...
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How to set the length of a line using openlayers

I'm trying edit a polygon by changing the length of some lines by code. Found this method to calculate based on the bearing. But I didn't find anything on how to calculate the bearing, before I start ...
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How does Flow Mapper Plugin work?

I downloaded the Flowmapper plugin for Qgis and I can't seem to find any information on how it is supposed to work... Also the text seems to cut-off and not fully showing for the input fields so I'm ...
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Shorten polylines a given distance

I have a polyline dataset with lines of different lengths. I want to shorten all polylines the same distance on both ends (e.g. 10m each side). Is there a tool or script available that could help me ...
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How do I find vector line bearing in QGIS or GRASS?

How can one extract the bearings from a set of lines in a vector file? I'm trying to find the bearings of several straight vector line segments (simplified contour lines, actually) and can't figure ...
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Convert multiple lines into single line

I've no idea if this is basic or what but I have this data that contains multiple lines (forming a polygon shape). I want to convert those lines (multiple - each with a start and end point) to a ...
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D3, Polymaps and Lines

I'm quite new to d3 and Polymaps and I have a question to ask.. I am trying to connect two points using a line, using Polymaps and d3, my starting point is from this code that Mike provided ...
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ArcObjects Java Calculate Line Length

I'm relatively new to programming and ArcObjects. I'm trying to simply calculate the length of a line (test.shp) using ArcObjects and Java. I've tried the code below with no luck. This is simple in ...
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Remove/dissolve parts in ESRI line feature class

I am using ESRI ArcGIS 10.1. I have a line which has been dissolved, having initially been composed of 4 features. I want to remove these parts, properly dissolving it into one continuous feature. I ...
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How to join number of point features into attribute of nearest line segment

I have point shapefile with lot of attributes, that represent road accidents and line shapefile with highways. What i want is to join attribute into line shapefile with value, that represent number of ...
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Spatial Join problems in ArcGIS 10.1 - intersect polygon and lines

I have hurricane tracks (Lines) and Florida county boundary (polygon) and I want to extract only those hurricane tracks that intersect Florida. In ArcMap 10.0 I used Spatial Join (from ...
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Lines as Great circles on a map

How can I get line features to appear as great circles on a map, instead of straight lines? Thanks,
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Splitting a branched river network at point layer

I need to split a country-scale river network (polyine) at certain barriers (point) so the length of (branched) river sections that have a certain minimum length. I used the following procedure: 1) ...
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How change border line to no pen with python console?

From Python console I load a shapefile with qgis.utils.iface.addVectorLayer. How I can remove border lines (change to no pen) in the active layer?
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Breaking a dynamic text line in data driven pages

I am using data driven pages and some of my dynamic text attributes are too long for my layout. Is there a way to break the line into 2 or more lines with out editing the data? Example: FROM Billy ...
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Selecting lines occupying identical positions in MapInfo or QGIS

I have two shapefiles from a client, one is their entire network (complete with unique IDs) and another a selection I need. However the selection file does not have unique IDs but the entire one does. ...
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Draw two separate lines from A to B and B to A

I have an Origin-Destination table like this Origin Destination Value A B 10 B A 100 A C 120 ... For all the locations A, B, C... I have another table indicating their location (Lat and Lon) Is ...
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Sum line length with clip intersect? [closed]

SELECT sum(st_length(st_intersection(POLY.geom, LINE.geom))) AS sum_line_length... Is this function OK to calculate the sum of lines length? Wonder if it do the clip line where one line go from one ...
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How do i calculate line segment lengths within a polygon?

I have a layer with line segments and a layer of polygons (in this case, buffers around points). I need to create a new field for each polygon that contains the total length of all line segments ...
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How can I merge/collapse nearby and parallel road lines (eg. a dual-carriageway) into one single line?

I have a shapefile from OSM which contains all the roads within a city. Larger roads (like dual-carriageways) seem to have 2 parallel lines. I'd like to collapse / combine those into 1 line so I can ...
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Elevation profile 10 km each side of a line

How can I get an elevation profile for a band of terrain? The highest elevation within 10 km (on each side of the defined line) should be taken into account. I hope my question is clear. Thank you ...
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CAD Contour Lines to ArcGIS Attributed Polylines

I'm having a 'CAD to GIS' issue. I have a dwg file which contains large number of contour lines that have been split by labels. I need to import the contour lines from CAD to GIS so that they contain ...
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How to create line with exact same length over and over again?

I need to draw 30 meter lines in specific places. Ctrl+l is too annoying to do everytime. Is there a easy way to define specific same length for a line that I need to draw many times?
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QGIS line style

I found the latest QGIS has a great tool to create complex styles, however looks like one small but very useful thing is missing, or I can't find it. I'm trying to create a line style something like ...
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Creating points along lines? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to create a point along a line given distance How to create equidistant points in QGIS? I have some road survey data and each line has an individual value and ...
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digitizing (tolerence) error in line data

I have designed a large number of boundaries. For accuracy, I took lines in patches from different data sets and merged them into one. Now I want to turn them into polygons from lines. I every second ...
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Moving points onto lines (~neighborhood)

I do have two vector layer, of which one is a point layer based on "events" by remote sensing and the second one is a line layer from local research. In my case these are earthquakes and tectonic ...
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Strange line appearing

I have this line in my project's layer which i cant make disappear: I hope you can see it. In QGIS is much more visible. An it also appears on the print composer. Any suggestions would be very ...
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Why doesn't Polygonizer copy the line ids to my polygonized shapefile?

I am trying to convert a line shapefile into a polygon shapefile using Polygonizer plugin, and when my new polygons are created all the cells in my id field are "Null", although I have clicked "copy ...
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How to extract most probable flow line from multiple lines?

I have to apply uncertainty principle to computing flow accumulation using Monte Carlo method. I generate raster with random numbers which represents mistakes in creating DEM. Then I apply those ...
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How to create a line with start and end points which are in another layer in QGIS?

In my map, there are lots of points in layer A. I want to make a line layer B and I want to make start & end points of lines snapping to points in layer A manually. Can I use points of layer A as ...
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How to connect particular sets of points with (poly)lines?

I think my problem is quite easy to be solved by the most postgis-users, but i am a bloody beginner: i have a timestamped point-table representing GPS-tracked places of different cars. To distinguish ...
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CssParameter stroke-width min max value Geoserver

I wonder if there is a minimum value for the stroke width parameter since I've a LineSymbolizer with stroke 0.1 but i want it to be thinner so i change the value to 0.05 but i dont see any difference ...
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How to connect places (points) without crossing lines?

I have two sets of data. One with placemarks represented by blue dots in image below, and another set of geographic data with lines represented by grey lines. 1) For the first point in drawing, I'm ...
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Compute Angle of a line in conventional bearing

I am trying to compute angle between two lines (line segment) using ESRI (ArcGIS, JS) in conventional bearing (Eg: N29'E) I am using Add Toolbar to draw a line segment where point A is a fixed point ...
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How can several vector layers have different controls, using Openlayers?

Using openlayers I have two vector layers. One layer is called lineLayer consisting of vector lines, and the other is called pointLayer consisting of points. When I hover on the lines I want to be ...
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Joining lines in MapInfo that won't be split by disaggregate?

I have just run a disaggregation a .tab containing just lines and found I have a few with duplicate IDs. However when I zoom in these lines appear to be connected. Is there any way to join these ...
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Partitioning a Line into Segments

I have a shapefile of U.S. states. I extracted the boundary between two states, resulting in a line segment. For example, the boundary between Georgia and North Carolina. Is there a way to further ...
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Drawing a Straight Line Between Two Polygons on a Map and Listing Which Polygons It Passes Through

I have a shapefile of United States counties. I have two counties that I would like to highlight. I would like to draw a straight line distance between them. By straight line, I mean, if you were ...
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Grouping lines together to form one line after a distance threshold is met: ArcGIS 10

I have lines on a map showing the most direct way from point data to the coastline (polygon). I would like to group the lines if they are close to each other by a distance that I can set. Where the ...
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How to avoid holes in polygons from lines?

I am trying to convert a dataset of lines that contains the coast of New Zealand into a big polygon. However using the vector -> geometry tools -> lines to polygon command in Quantum GIS results in a ...

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