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Using QGIS, I have two shapefiles:
For each enterprise, I need to figure out the three closest towers and their distances in meters.
Is there a script I can run that can calculate this? Or do I need to use the field calculator/select by location tool?
To complement the other answer of using Distance Matrix Tool, a worked example is included. For instance, if you have your two point shapefiles loaded as follows (entreprises and towers loaded - nb sample data generated for example):
Then open the Distance Matrix tool (Vector --> Analsyis Tools --> Distance Matrix) as follows. First, select the entreprises as your input and specify the unique id for each entreprise feature. Your towers will be the target layer and you can then specify the nearest neighbours as 3:
If it completes successfully, a new point shap file will be loaded to the canvas with the distance results stored between the 3 nearest points:
Distance Matrix tool. Input 1 is the enterprise, input 2 is the towers.
