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What's the Workflow for buffering in meters/km using WGS84 layers?

I'm a little bit new to GIS, so bear with me a minute.... I'm using QGIS 1.7.4-Wroclaw and working with an SHP layer in WGS84. I want to buffer out to a certain number of kilometers from this layer ...
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Create buffer-lines in QGIS alongside Vector lines

I am currently doing a map of a farm, to see which roads needs to be repaired. Those roads are either one sided fenced, on both sides fenced or not fenced at all. I want to make buffer lines around ...
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trying to make a point to polygon attribute join with a many to many match

I am trying to match US charter schools to noncharter schools in QGIS. I have constructed a buffer of 10 miles around each charter schools and then tried a join attributes by location match with non ...
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QGIS define hexagon area around mapped points

I am using QGIS to map a number of radio antennas (for mobile network). Once I have the layer of the sites (done), I would like to assign to each site a coverage area (envelope). I could achieve that ...
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How to buffer in pyQGIS?

I'm looking for some examples to do simple python scripts in QGIS. How would I do a buffer analysis on a dataset? I can't seem to find much in the manual and QGIS python that quite matches the Esri ...
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How can I create a pollutant dispersion raster in QGIS?

As my previous questions have indicated, I am working on an air quality problem where I have a dataset of industrial emissions that consists of a location (long, lat), and an annual volume of ...
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Is it possible, in QGIS, to create buffers with a set radius, but with individual values taken from the attribute table?

I am looking to create an output that consists of an 11KM buffer around a number of discrete points, where the buffer has a value defined by a column in the data sets attribute table. Is this ...
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QGIS regular points around each polygon in a layer (vs ALL polygons)

I have a number of buffered points (some where polygons intersect & are dissolved. I'd like to create regular spaced points grid around EACH polygon -- not ALL polygons. When I do Vector -> ...
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How to buffer a line with different distances for left/right sides

How can I buffer a line in QGIS using one attribute for the left side of the line and one attribute for the right side of the line? I am trying to buffer a river with its bank width, which is ...
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How to generate non-merging buffers in QGIS?

I'm using QGIS to construct some fixed width buffers from a coastline shapefile. Is there a way to easily handle overlaps/ median lines? (I'm not sure if there's a particular term or phrase I should ...
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How to create a polygon (fixed width buffer) around a polygon in QGIS?

I have created a polygon in QGIS (in this case it describes a country's maritime baseline). I need to create a second polygon whose boundary is a fixed distance from the original polygon. (in this ...
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How to calculate buffer surface that falls within another layer's borders

The image below shows what two selected layers. One contains a series of borders, and the other a series of buffers. I am trying to obtain the buffered surface within each of the borders in the ...
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Surface covered by buffers in QGIS

In QGIS, I have plotted buffers around points. I would like to calculate the area which falls under buffers without over counting due to buffer overlaps. Is there a quick and easy way to do this?
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how to extract overlap from non-dissolved buffer zones in qgis 1.7.4

I have a shapefile with the inventory of all limetree in a region. I made a buffer around each tree. So, the place where buffers overlap each other is the best place to put beehives. Is there a way ...
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What is up with QGIS buffer tool units?

I have been trying to figure this out for a couple weeks now and have had no luck getting the buffer tool to accept anything but degrees as units of measure. I have found lots of stuff saying the ...
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Generate non-overlapping shapes from a buffer

I have a collection of points, and I need to generate shapes around these points. Let's assume that these points are locations of offices and that the shapes are the 'area of responsibility' around ...
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Is it possible to create multiple buffers using QGIS?

I'm new to QGIS and have no programming skills, is there an easy/uncomplicated way to create multiple buffers around a line feature.
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Generate a report or table for buffer zone

I have a polygon feature class. I create a buffer for this feature with a distance being 2 km.Now the buffer output intersect with features of the original polygon.So say for instance from the orginal ...
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After two buffers operations (+/-), why is the result file bigger than the original?

First file ( .shp ) had 1000KB, after 2buffers ( buffers on polygon, 1st buffer +100, 2nd buffer -100 ( small things near polygon should be removed )) in quantum gis file grown to 1500KB, and after ...
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How to remove overlapping buffer in QGIS?

I wanna know how to do this in QGIS: I've tried many ways, but still can't find the right solution.
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How to calculate the size of a particular area below a buffer in QGIS

I have a point shapefile of villages where data was collected in Northern Kenya. I created a buffer around those villages. The second vector layer contains polygons defining areas according to ...
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How to use buffers to estimate the attribute data for a given polygon?

I have two layers: point and a polygon. The point layer has lat/long and I have created buffers of a 1/4 mile. The polygon layer has data such as age and income. Is there a plug-in that can ...
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Conflicting measurement units with buffer ftools

I am new to qgis and I would like to create a buffer around point features. My goal is to create a quarter mile buffer (402.336m) around each point feature, using Geoprocessing Tools -> Buffer(s), ...
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How can I create a “setback” buffer in QGIS?

I've been going a bit crazy in trying to create a "setback" buffer on QGIS for coastal lines in a map projecting this buffer outwards towards the sea. I've managed to create a normal Bidirectional ...
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QGIS inside buffer with attributes

Fairly similar to ArcGIS: inside buffer with attributes? but in QGIS. It would be convenient if the buffer layer inherited the attributes of the parent. Also I am doing inside buffers (-ve distance ...
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Circular buffer with QGis

I would like to select areas under a particular circular radius in QGis. I believe this is accomplished with the buffer tool, but when I specify the radius the area is not circular. How to make it ...
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How to Buffer with intersections in QGIS

I am buffering a layer of facilities (points). I will then use the buffer to clip and intersect another layer, containing resources. I want to answer the question, how much of the resource lies ...