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How to computational efficiently check if there are any overlapping polygons in a group of polygons?

I need to do some processing with groups of polygons. If any of the polygons in the group overlaps other polygon the result is unpredictable and don't throw any error. So, I need to detect if there is ...
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Fill polygon with colour depending on the value in MS SQL Server table

I'm using QGIS 1.8. Windows 7. I have a table in MS SQL Server 2008 R2 database with two fields: id and density(int). There are several polygons in QGIS. How can I set color of polygion depending on ...
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Slicing / Cutting a Polygon / Polygon List based on another geometry

I currently use GeoDjango (GEOS, GDAL, PROJ4), I have rather medium set of polygon data (buildings). To streamline them to a client efficiently (client has a limited viewport) I only want to send the ...
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Create a square grid polygon shapefile with python

i have the following coordinates minx,maxx,miny,maxy = 448262.080078, 450360.750122, 6262492.020081, 6262938.950073 i wish to create a square grid of size 1 m using python. import math ...
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Efficiently identifying overlapping polygons with Python

I'm parsing the NOAA severe weather alert feed and using it as a datasource for a weather alerting system. In the feed, I occasionally find a polygon entry for an alert. Unfortunately, counties that ...
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Python OGR: convert a point geometry into polygon

I'm writing a routine for creating the convex hull envelop around shapefiles of islands. I could read the data, extract polygons vertices into a geometry and then compute the convex hull. Now I need ...
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Regional statistics from a dataset (point inside a polygon aka region)

I am relatively new to GIS and I am trying to do some geographical analysis on same data I've collected. The dataset I have consists essentially in a file with the following format: ...
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How to filter out multipart polygons and then buffer?

I've written a small script trying to accomplish the task described in the question title. It basically looks like: in_fc = '...' # Some shapefile goes here # Get the fields (column names) of the ...
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Dissolving specific polygons inside SearchCursor with Python in Arcmap

I have a layer with catchment polygons. For those that are smaller than a certain size, I want to merge with an adjoining polygon (namely the one downstream). In the attribute table I have a GridID, ...
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Python loop Polygon to raster not working

I want to convert a large number of different shp polygons to raster in ArcGIS 10.1, using an existing field column "class" for the new raster classes. I am not very fluent in python but I thought ...
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How to construct a line from points in pyshp?

I am reading a shapefile for a pipeline and what I've noticed is that if I just draw a line from one point to the next (in the order I read them), there will be points where the line terminates, and ...
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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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How to rotate polygon to find best fit in Mapnik? [closed]

I have a quite simple problem but somehow I just fail to solve it. There is a polygon and a range xsize and ysize. The x and y size determines the mapnik generated image. The polygon should now be ...
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python error when using polygon centroid tool [closed]

When I use the "Polygon Centroid" tool -- to fix labeling features on a shapefile...i get this "Python Error" with a bunch of coding I do not understand in a text box. Afterward QGIS 1.7 shuts down on ...
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how do I get the “outer mantle” of a polygon shape file? (without joining all the polygons)

I am interested in finding all the vertices of all polygons which are not on the inside the most outer polygoin that can be formed in a shape file: Here is how I get all the vertices: def ...
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Merge section polygons in PLSS

I am trying to merge quarter quarter sections of polygons from PLSS into a quarter section. However, I also want it assigned to correct Township/Range/Section while merging. I know I can hand merge ...
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How do I rotate the polygon about an anchor point using python script?

I know there would be no tool in arcpy module as such but mignt have in third party modules. I however tried taking the vertices of the polygon and moving using the below formula. but did not get the ...
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Best Method for Validating polygons?

I would like to assess the spatial accuracy of a load of polygon shapefiles which are supposed to show air quality for a bunch of countries. Firstly I want to assess whether each shapefile has a ...
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How to automate point-in-polygon queries in ArcView?

Layer1 = point shapefile (multiple points, geocoded) Layer2 = polygon (1 attribute; (1,2,3...)) I want a non-gis person to be able input a single address and be told the attribute of the polygon ...
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How to bring polygons closer to a point?

I have some scattered polygons with a lot of space between them. I want to make a thematic map but all that white space doesn't look very good, so I want to bring the polygons closer to the center of ...
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Generate points that lie inside polygon

I have polygon feature and want to be able to generate points inside it. I need this for one classification task. Generating random points until one is inside the polygon wouldn't work because it's ...
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using shapely: translating between Polygons and MultiPolygons

[EDIT: the solution to this was simply to use OGR to read shapefiles. See geographika's example.] In an ESRI shapefile, there is no distinction between Polygons and MultiPolygons. Furthermore, there ...