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I got a river shapefile below,

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and I found that there are many fragmental lines in this line shapefile, like,

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and,

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Most of these are located around the confluence(node), and how can I do to efficiently merge them into the nearby large line object, making whole shapefile containing only intact line segments between confluences(nodes)？

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  • Do you have access to ESRI? Assuming that there are no attributes to preserve I would dissolve into a single multipart feature and then planarize in an edit session of ArcMap. I don't know of any function in OGR/QGIS that would perform a planarize but there might be an explode multipart into single part that works in a similar manner.
    – Michael Stimson
    Apr 15, 2014 at 5:50
  • @MichaelMiles-Stimson thanks, I want to use QGIS to do this.
    – Heinz
    Apr 15, 2014 at 6:33

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QGIS Disolve can solve this issue.

  1. In your river layer, select linestrings you want to merge.
  2. Go to menu and activate Vector | Geoprocessing Tools | Dissolve
  3. Make sure that your river layer is selected as Input layer.
  4. Select option Dissolve all (to dissolve all selected linestrings, without specifying the ID).

If the selected line segments are not intact, Dissolve tool gives a multipart feature. In such cases the line layer has to be topologically cleaned beforehand.

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Go to settings Go to snapping options Select river layer Select pixcel from dragdown menu Choose around 10 pixcel for snapping limit.

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  • I'm not sure how the snapping option will change the pre-existing data. Please consider expanding the question clearly answering the OP's question.
    – Devdatta Tengshe
    Apr 16, 2014 at 4:47
  • I tried, but like @DevdattaTengshe said, the data seems not change.
    – Heinz
    Apr 16, 2014 at 8:42

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