How do you snap lines to the edge of the nearest polygon in bulk using QGIS?

Question

I have shopping mall data with shops and doors. I am trying to run 'join attributes by location' in order to match the shop names with the door. Some doors are located just within the shop polygon while some are just outside. The 'join attributes by location' function doesn't work with the doors located outside the polygons. Is there a way to snap all the doors to the edge of the nearest polygon in order to run the join attributes by location function?

Yellow lines are the doors outside the shop polygon.

Close up of door outside of polygon

Answer 1

One possible way to do that is to do the following:

• Create a buffer around the door lines with a suitable buffer size that can be located within each corresponding shop. I see the doors have almost the same length, so you can use buffer with same size for all.
• Use Join Attribute by location between the buffer created in the previous step and the green polygon.
• Finally, use again Join Attribute by location between the door lines and the output of the joined buffer created in previous step. In this step the shop information will be transferred to the door lines.