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I have several separate shapefiles with polygon features. The end goal is to maintain separate shapefiles for each polygon but form a contiguous, non-overlapping coverage for my area. Basically, I guess I am trying to fill in gaps using a consistent, repeatable process.

The polygons are irregular: enter image description here

Initially I thought I could buffer each polygon and do something like this for the overlaps: Cut off overlapping polygon areas at their cutting edge but was unable to perform using v.clean. Is there another way? Most methods I see seem to favor one polygon over the other and I'm trying for a standard or middle distance.

If a buffer is not used, I want to expand each polygon in a standardized way and have them meet at a 'midpoint' between each polygon. Is this possible? Maybe something with node snapping tolerances? I am currently using QGIS 2.16 and don't have any experience using python.

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    If you only have to do a few of these, you could turn on snapping, create a new polygon that fills the gap and is snapped to the vertices of the neighboring polygons, split the new polygon roughly in half, (advanced digitizing toolbar: split features tool), copy-paste each half into the shapefile of its neighboring polygon, and merge it with that polygon.
    – csk
    Mar 9, 2018 at 18:56
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    Thank you; this may be what I end up doing because I don't have too many polygons right now. However, I think my next round will be more complex, so I'd love to have something less 'free-hand' with the split features.
    – Brett_
    Mar 10, 2018 at 15:31

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Be sure your polygons have a unique id.

  1. Extract vertices

  2. Create Voronoi polygons

  3. Aggregate voronoi polygons based on the unique id.

Resulting polygons outlined in red: enter image description here

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