I've been sent a shapefile containing 12 layers of some city's road system. Each layer depicts a portion of the road system, and all of them partially overlap on the map.
I'd like to work on the sum of these 12 layers in order to have the broadest extent of the road system. The problem is that the person who digitized the analog maps to create the shapefile didn't use the snap feature, and the line segments and their vertices don't exactly overlap where they should.
How would one sensibly deal with this kind of data? Is there a way to automatically correct these messed up topologies?
CTRL + ALT + T
or a little gear symbol in newer versions), with an own tab for GRASS tools.v.patch
might indeed help you combine all your files...but, honestly, I´d first try to get proper data elsewhere; if it is just a plain, up-to-date road network you´re after, chances are high OSM got that for you already.