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I have a line that I ultimately want to split up into points. The points should be every 100 meter along the line. So I don't want to extract the nodes.
Are there any Open Source (QGIS, Python) tools around for that?
The use case is that I have a bus line without bus stops. Though I know every 100 meter the bus stops. This way I want to generate bus stops to use as a GTFS feed.
May be an alternative to the suggestion AndreaJ gave- Have look at
N.B. This tool expects projected coordinate systems for the feature to be splitted by planar length unit.
You can use the Convert lines to points tool (you need SAGA GIS installed and the processing toolbox plugin enabled) and set your distance:
This is what I received for my line layer:
I used the Measure Line tool from the toolbar to do a quick check between points:
Hope this helps!
So I don't want to extract the nodes
Feb 3, 2015 at 14:32
v.split.length or v.to.points from the same processing toolbox might be better tools.
v.split.length. As it spits out a line layer, when converting this to points it will give duplicates on the inner vertices of the entire line (since each segment has a start-and-end). Atleast this is what happened to me when I tried it. But v.to.points should work.
v.to.points does not split, if that is needed.
Can be done with OpenJUMP and linear referencing tools. Select the line layer first.
Fill in the parameters
Results go to a new point layer. Points are at equal intervals along the line, original vertices are dropped. Start and end nodes can be preserved if desired.
