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I have a polygon-layer with the boundaries of a district. I want to divide this polygon into several smaller polygons with each polygon having x number of buildings.

To do so, I added another (background layer with bing/google maps) and I started adding points in another layer (each point represent a building with automatic numbering). Then in another line layer, I draw manually the lines (around every x points/buildings) so that I can use later Split with line with the original polygon-layer

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The method is working but it is time consuming. Is there a way to speed up the process? I found for example that OpenMaps can export the buildings shapes, but how can group each 30 buildings for example in a polygon?

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A basic workflow looks like this:

  1. Download polygons for buildings using OpenStreetMap data with QuickOSM plugin.

  2. Create centroid for the buildings.

  3. On the centroid-layer, create an id-field for each of the points with the id of the original polygons they are located in. Use this expression: array_first (overlay_within('poly', $id)) (replace poly with the name of your polygon layer).

  4. Create Voronoi-polygons from the centroid-layer.

  5. Menu / Geoprocessing Tools / Union: voronoi-polygons with the original polygon-layer.

  6. Run Menu Processing / Toolbox / k-means clustering.

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  • I think you mean this gis.stackexchange.com/a/354691/99589
    – Taras
    May 28, 2021 at 14:39
  • I see, yes, basically, it's the same as far as I can see, just with Union instead of Split with Lines - if you post this comment under the question, I can delete my answer.
    – Babel
    May 28, 2021 at 14:47
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    Let’s firstly wait for OP
    – Taras
    May 28, 2021 at 14:50
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    OK, than I mis-understood the question, I'm sorry for that: K-means clustering does not allow to set the cluster-size (a constant number of features to be grouped together). For this, see here: gis.stackexchange.com/a/303657/88814
    – Babel
    May 30, 2021 at 21:21
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    No worry. I have learned quite a few tricks and how voronoi polygons work! Looking at the link, it seems that I need R for the script/functions. Too bad I have only worked with SPSS/Stata as statistical packages (I don't know R and I don't have access to ArcGIS for the other solutions)
    – wollyka
    May 30, 2021 at 21:47

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