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In QGIS, I would like to split the polylines in a layer loaded in the workspace with the points in another loaded layer. If a point intersects a polyline, this polyline should be transformed into two polylines...

I've read that this could be done with grass but i have no idea how to do it with layers (SHP)loaded in the QGIS workspace.

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You can see solutions using GRASS here

There's also another option with Spatialite. The newest version 4.0 has a function LinesCutAtNodes() which does what you want. You feed it a linestring geometry and a point geometry, and it returns a linestring split wherever a point exactly intersect a vertex on the line. The points have to intersect vertices on the line, so you should do snap() first to get the points to exactly intersect the line vertices.

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  • Thanks for your answer. I do not have SQLIte to use those functions but i do use Postgis. In fact the layers i loaded in the QGIS Map Canvas are loaded from postgis. Is there any similar function in Postgis? I've seen that st_snap() exists but nothing similar to Spatialites LinesCutAtNodes()?
    – Egidi
    Feb 1, 2013 at 17:18
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    In PostGIS you could probably use a combination of ST_Line_Locate_Point() to find the fractional distance along your linestring for each point, then ST_Line_Interpolate_Point() to find the new node. and finally ST_AddPoint() to stick a the node into the linestring. THis would all have to go into a function with a "for each" loop.
    – Micha
    Feb 2, 2013 at 18:35
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For PostGIS ST_Split is the maching function. You can use ST_Snap to add some tolerance into the calculation

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