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I am attempting to create a 100% MCP in QGIS using the minimum bounding geometry tool in QGIS. My data is sensitive and I therefore cannot share any of it (including a subset). I have used a dataset of animal locations as the input layer, left the field open as I need an MCP for all individuals together, and have chosen the "convex hull" geometry type. However, the output clearly ignores some of my location points (see left-hand side of the photo).

I have tried redoing this multiple times, even re-importing the point dataset, yet I still get the same result. I also tried creating a 100% MCP in R and then importing a shapefile of it into QGIS, and it still looks the same. Has anyone ever had this issue come up? I cannot seem to find anything wrong with the few points it's ignoring, so I am not sure what else it could be.

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  • If the distances are long and it the CRS is EPSG:4326 something like that might happen due to curved lines following the great circle. If distances are short and CRS some projected system the issue must be somewhere else. Try if you can create test data by digitizing manually points into any other place in the world.
    – user30184
    Commented Aug 13, 2020 at 7:39
  • Thank you, I tried adding an extra point even farther out than the cluster and the minimum bounding geometry tool still ignores it. The points cover quite a large distance and I have the project CRS set as "NSIDC sea ice polar stereographic north". Any other thoughts?
    – user168476
    Commented Aug 13, 2020 at 16:39
  • 1) Points in Vector>Processing geometry>Triangulation Delaunay; 2) Editing and manual removal of unnecessary triangles; 3) Vector>Geo-processing>Uniting on the basis of...
    – Cyril Mikhalchenko
    Commented Aug 13, 2020 at 18:03

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Did you try using all the convex hull algorithms available in QGIS? You can find below the choices you have. It may not answer of the why it fails but you may be able to solve your problem using an alternative algorithm.

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  • Oddly they all still make the same shape!
    – user168476
    Commented Aug 13, 2020 at 16:31
  • "I have used a dataset of animal locations" Available where? So we can try ourself. Clearly curious
    – ThomasG77
    Commented Aug 13, 2020 at 17:46
  • I cannot share this dataset. It says so in the original question.
    – user168476
    Commented Aug 13, 2020 at 22:56
  • Sorry. Misunderstanding when reading: I was thinking the sensitive data was something else.
    – ThomasG77
    Commented Aug 13, 2020 at 23:08
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I ended up just manually adjusting the polygon by snapping vertices to the outer location points that the tool was ignoring - crude, but it worked!

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