I was wondering if anyone could shed a light on why this behavior is happening in QGIS?
I'm pretty confident that the issue here is not due to centroids within polygon.
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is there multipolygons or geometry collections that might be spread from eachother. as it looks, that explanation would not make sense if the image show the whole dataset though.– Nicklas AvénCommented Nov 18, 2010 at 20:16
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@Nicklas Avén - I just added another image– dassoukiCommented Nov 18, 2010 at 20:25
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4It looks like a projection issue to me. Does the polygon layer have a projection defined? Can you provide more detail on the projection of the polygon layer, the projection for the QGIS data frame, whether you have 'On the fly reprojection' turned on?– SeanCommented Nov 18, 2010 at 20:47
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Could you share a data sample?– underdarkCommented Nov 19, 2010 at 8:20
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QGIS does not reproject data on the fly automatically. It's not unusual to have a Coordinate Reference System (CRS) defined for a project and have data added to the map with a different projection that displays but has not been transformed to the CRS of the map. If the CRS of the map and the CRS of the data are close enough, the data will display but be in a slightly different position.
Your centroids and polygons are in different CRSs. The solution is to either:
- project one of the datasets into the same CRS as the other or
- check the "Enable 'on the fly' CRS transformation" box on Coordinate Reference System (CRS) tab of the Project Properties window.
Be aware that the second option does not affect your data, it only projects it for the display. The underlying data is not changed.
You just need a new QGis plugin to create polygon centroids, you can check out "Centroid Maker" from here
edit: It is more efficient/accurate for the problem of "island" geometries, which confuses traditional centroids makers.
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how is it different, better, or worse than the QGIS one (aka cfarmer's one)?– dassoukiCommented Nov 19, 2010 at 14:48