A geometric element defined by a pair of x,y coordinates.
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Splitting a TAB file by attribute?
I have TAB file with LOADS of points. Each point as a unique ID and group assigned to it (ranging from 1-154). I'm wondering if there is an easy way to split this up into a TAB file for each group, ...
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How to insert vertex in polyline layer where we have a point in a point layer
I have a polyline layer and a point layer. Some of the points are on the polylines, but the polylines do not have vertex in these points.
How can i insert vertex there ?
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How to calculate the angle between two points (according to a reference point)
I need to calculate the angles between two points on ArcGIS. I have ArcInfo License, too. I have 5 points on a diagram. One of them is my reference point. The other four creates angles between each ...
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Calculating the distance between points and multiple lines
I have a point shapefile of about 100 points and a polyline shapefile of about 200 lines and I am interested in finding the distance between every point and each individual polyline. My polyline ...
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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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Can I write a query in MapInfo to select points within a certain distance of each other?
Example: I have 400 points. I want to make 4 different groups (roughly 100 points each) and I want the groups to contain the points that are closest, spatially, to one another.
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Prediction a point position
I don't know if you could help me in this:
I have 7 points (x coordinate is known and variable) (y coordinate is known and fixed) each point represents a position of the same object in a specific ...
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arcpy points in polygon check
I have a list of points and a list of polygons both in a separate shape files. I am trying to write a ArcPy script to loop through the points, and then the polygons respectively and tell me when a ...
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Calculate min distance between points in PostGIS
I have point layer in PostGIS database. Help please with query which add for each points in layer distance in attribute table between this point and another nearest point. Thanks!
Update
Calculate ...
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How to Draw a Point on a Geotiff in Android and Put it in the Postgresql Database?
I need to:
Open a geotiff in my phone (android) {offline)
Draw a point
Get it's coordinates (X,Y)
Fill in the data attributes (name of the point, ...)
Put the data and the coordinates in my ...
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1answer
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How to determine optimal windmill placement to maximize production?
How can I add automatically the maximum number of points (dots) with 6m diameter and 100m distance each point from other into an area. The dots will present the windmill base (6m) and I want the ...
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1answer
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Postgis 1.4 - Obtain closest point of point over polylines layer (without st_ClosestPoint)
I´ve got a polylines layer (pipes) and a points layer (valves) and In Postgis 1.4 I would like to obtain the closest points but exactly on the closest polyline. In other words, i need to locate each ...
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QGIS or Postgis - How to split polylines with a point layer?
In QGIS, I would like to split the polylines in a layer loaded in the workspace with the points in another loaded layer. If a point intersects a polyline, this polyline should be transformed into two ...
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QGIS create layer with the points of the beginnings and ends of a polylines layer (without duplicate points)
In QGIS, i would like to create a new layer containing the beginning and end points of a polylines layer, but without the duplicate points that would result of adjacent polylines.
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Classifying point coordinates to countries or continents?
I have about 50 000 points (latitude and longitude), and I would like to find out in which country each of the points is located. It does not need to be super precise, though.
(Or actually I only ...
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How to create different diameter circles round points?
I want to map a tree survey. I am thinking that I will plot positional points of the trees and then add other data like tree type etc. to the attribute table later. Is there a way I can have an ...
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1answer
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QGis 1.8 fails to rotate point geometries with rule-based style
I have to do some visualizations in QGIS (1.8.0) and up to now I've been very happy with the new Dialog "Layer Properties -> Style", using the rotation-field to rotate Point-Geometries visualized by a ...
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How many GIS projects deal with just basic “putting markers on a map”?
Is there an academic paper or conference contribution, where someone estimated how many GIS projects actually deal with only a very basic usage of GIS data? Something equivalent to the infamous "80% ...
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Aggregating points to grid using R
I have a question with regard to spatial aggregation in R.
What I am trying to do is aggregate a point dataset to a grid.
I am unsure however how to do this as I have little experience with this sort ...
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Spatial indexing of a point pattern in R [duplicate]
I have a point pattern and a tessellation (grid) in R. Is there a way to spatially index each of my points? In other words, my tessellation grid has n quadrats, I would like to know for each of my ...
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Calculate 'Rectangle' Coordinates Given 2 Points and width [closed]
I want to create a rectangular polygon using two points as guides.
So let's say a journey starts in Egypt and ends in London, my polygon should have 4 points:
10 miles further from London than Egypt ...
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1answer
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Is it possible to place a point at a coordinate in QGIS?
Is it possible to place a point at a coordinate in qgis?
I have a map, using irish grid reference and wish to place a point at an exact 6 digit coordinate. Is it possible to do it.
Previous to this ...
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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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How to format spreadsheet to input point data for later import to PostgreSQL
I want to create a spreadsheet to hold data from our cemetery. I will use the spreadsheet to get the data into a PostgreSQL database. What I dont know yet is the format that the point (positional) ...
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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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1answer
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How to determine error radius of given points
I am running QGIS 1.8.0 on a 64-bit Windows 7 platform.
Given multiple points with different (but close) coordinates, how do I automatically create a new point that programmatically takes into ...
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How can I join a spreadsheet to a point layer?
I have a layer with point data for the grave positions in our cemetery. We are gathering data from each headstone. If I enter the data to a spreadsheet can I later associate the spreadsheet with the ...
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How to export Dispers Markers result?
I have many points in same x,y . i'd like to show , select by attribute and location . The result of disperse markres is a representation . It just show points and not save all of them in desired ...
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Algorithms for optimally locating points
I am trying to compare locations of where several thousand facilities have been actually built to where they would be optimally located to minimize travel times of the population (represented by ...
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How to Batch Change X, Y Coordinate Number in ArcGIS?
I have a huge number of points (100000 points). Some of these have the same x,y coordinates. For example, 50 points are same in x,y then 100 points are same in another x,y coordinates and so on. ...
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1answer
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NYC Subway Line Station Order?
I've currently got data on the NYC subway stations (including name, position, and how many people entered and existed during a timeframe). Also, I have the data on which stations have which train ...
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1answer
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How to remove duplicate point features?
I have created many .gpx datas with my Garmin device, but due to the amount of data, I have imported the mapping data from my device several times (also because I didn't want it to be lost)...
As a ...
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How to perform a join on simultaneous spatial and attribute criteria in ArcGIS?
I have two point layers and want to perform a spatial join on nearest distance.
Normally it is easy with ArcMap. But now I have a restricting condition on the spatial join. The restriction only ...
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Why does a track point layer attribute table have no positional information?
I imported a track log in GPX format to QGIS. The track had two layers, the track points and the track, a smooth line joining the track points.
Why does the attribute table for the track points have ...
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Point to Polygon [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Create new polygon layers from postcodes latitude & longitude
I'm running QGIS 1.8.0
I have a list of points that I need to convert to one polygon. So far I have ...
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How to extract POINT from a [LINE|MULTILINE]STRING
I'd like to create a vectorLayer in QGIS to display all the points that form a LINESTRING or a MULTILINESTRING stored in a PostGIS DB.
I think that I need to transform all points of LINESTRING (or ...
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OpenLayers: how to save added point in server side
I'm new in OpenLayers.
I have simple application, which use a picture as map,
on this picture users can add, move, or delte point, and then save.
I have implemented adding, moving, deleting ...
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1answer
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Creating Isolines from point Data
I'm quite new with ArcGis 10 so I’m having difficulties with something that may be simple to some. Anyway I have a list of bores that I’ve plotted using coordinates. Now I need to draw a single ...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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Create point to a center of polyline
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
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1answer
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adding multiple points to a linestring in PostGIS
Though a newbie to PostGIS, I'm having trouble solving something that I think should be farily straightforward.
I have two linestring tables, both consisting of simple, 2-node line objects: one has ...
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How to add vertices to existing linestrings?
If I have
Linestring(1 2, 1 5, 1 9)
and a
Point(1 3)
Is there any function that can merge linestring and point preserving the order
so output would be:
Linestring(1 2, 1 3, 1 5, 1 9)
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ArcGIS: Rapid digitizing of Point Data
I have several big maps with a lot of points that I have to digitize. All these Points have different Values (depth in Meter, double) and will be stored in 1 Shapefile.
Is there a way to speed up my ...
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1answer
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Is it possible to filter points that dont make sense compared to neighbour points?
I have a point shape (10.000 Points). Before interpolating theses points I need to filter them with a statistical background. Is there a tool or something I could use? Is it possible to select / ...
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1answer
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Plotting pixels on a map image
I've got a list of some hundreds of latitude/longitude pairs close to each other (within a country). I want to create an image with a map, and circles overlaid around these points. Basically, what I ...
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Vector data(point) is drawn in wrong place on map (OpenLayers)
I need to show a map (world map, used default OpenLayers WMS) and one point on it (with events like onhover, etc). Here is my code:
var options = {
...
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How to draw shapes with highest possible decimal accuracy
I am trying to read input of lat and long to draw the shape based on condition.The input is standard array of lat and long with 15 decimal accuracy. I am realizing - I am loosing some decimal accuracy ...
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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 to identify and simplify point clusters with regard to time in PostGIS?
I just started to work with spatial databases and I want to write a SQL(PostGIS) query for automatic generalizing of raw GPS-tracks (with fixed tracking frequency). The first thing I am wokring on is ...
