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I have 3 points in one layer as shown in the first image. I am trying to connect a building points with junction point by 2 lines. For demo, I have manually drawn a lines in image 2. Here, I am trying to achieve two things:

  • Connect points (buildings) with Junction by lines.
  • Save the data of start point and end point of connecting lines in seperate table (layer) as shown in image 2 (rightside).

Overall, there will be 3 features in points table and 2 features in line table.

What I have tried and search?

  1. I have tried points to path using Menu Processing / Toolbox / points to path. It only connect one building with junction point with no attributes (startpoint,endpoint) saved in the table.
  2. I have also searched for the exisiting answers 1, 2, 3, 4 but I couldn,t able to solve the problem.

![enter image description here

![[2]: https://i.sstatic.net/AAp3O.png

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  • I don't understand the question, but maybe a virtual layer can help: SELECT make_line(a.geometry, b.geometry) geometry, a.id objectid, a.mrid as 'start_point', b.mrid as 'end_point', a.Class FROM newpoints_2021 a, newpoints_2021 b WHERE b.id='36' AND a.class IN ('building') Commented Jan 13, 2021 at 15:36
  • Hi @CyrilMikhalchenko. The question is to connect the points with lines and then save the start and end data of connecting line in seperate layers as shown in image 2 (rightside).
    – Case Msee
    Commented Jan 14, 2021 at 0:25
  • @CyrilMikhalchenko. The important part is to save the data of start and end points in the new layer.
    – Case Msee
    Commented Jan 14, 2021 at 0:42
  • Did you try to run the query I suggested with the virtual layer and then save the result? Does it meet your expectations? Commented Jan 14, 2021 at 8:28

1 Answer 1

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You can use Menu Processing / Toolbox / Geometry by expression to create the lines you want:

if ( 
    "Class" = 'building' ,
    make_line (
        $geometry, 
        geometry (
            get_feature (
                'points', 
                'Class', 
                'junction'
            )
        )
    ),
    NULL
)

enter image description here

If you want to have start- and end points as actual geometries/separate layers, you can just use Menu vector / Geometry tools / Extract vertices and set the lines created before as input.

To visualize start- and endpoint of this line (without creating actual geometries/new layer), add a new symbol layer / Geometry generator / geometry type: point and add the following expression (see screenshot below).

collect_geometries (
    end_point ( $geometry ), 
    start_point ( $geometry )
)

enter image description here

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  • Hi @babel. I can,t able to create line. Can you please share which sample files are you using? My shape file is available here dropbox.com/sh/nwpbnb61riezr5v/AAC3vGwkn-YZDna0DwnbXNJOa?dl=0
    – Case Msee
    Commented Jan 13, 2021 at 11:48
  • 2
    You must adapt the names of the layer and the fields to your use case: you have Junction with uppercase, the name of your layer is 'newpoints_2021' instead of 'points' etc. With the data/names you provided, I was able to create the line using: if ( "Class" = 'building' , make_line ( $geometry, geometry ( get_feature ( 'newpoints_2021', 'Class', 'Junction' ) ) ), NULL )
    – Babel
    Commented Jan 13, 2021 at 13:27
  • If you use geometry generator on a symbol layer, instead of the layer name you can use the variable @layer. However, when using Geometry by expression, unfortunately this does not work.
    – Babel
    Commented Jan 13, 2021 at 13:30
  • Thank you. I able to get the connecting lines but the output layer (Modified geometry) is similar to input points as shown here ibb.co/dmS87pC . It does not save the start and end points as shown in the image 2 of question.
    – Case Msee
    Commented Jan 14, 2021 at 0:41
  • For intance, building 1 is connected with junction by line. The output layer should save the connected points by mrids. lets say the line is connected FROM building mrid (d2127ed8-de59-427a-a22f-ac7765637b9f) TO Junction mrid (4c67ad24-7bcb-4161-a410-23196419aab4). The information of FROM and TO should be saved in the output file with mrid. This is what I have also tried to show manually in image 2 (rightside) in question.
    – Case Msee
    Commented Jan 14, 2021 at 1:26

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