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11 questions linked to/from Moving points onto lines (~neighborhood)
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QGIS - snapping points onto lines [duplicate]
I have two layers, one is point layer and other one is a line layer. I want the point features to snap on to the lines, but the points are away from the lines. Is there any way to move the points onto ...
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How to get the nearest point on a linestring to a given point?
I've been using PostGIS for a long time now but never had to use the LINESTRING geometry ...! :)
Here's what I would like to do : I have a table of linestrings (representing streets of a given city, ...
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Drawing perpendicular lines in PyQGIS
I have a situation like this:
What I need to do is to connect each point to every line that is at most, let's say 200 m, away from the point. In other words, I need to draw a perpendicular line from ...
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Snap lines to points automatically?
I have two vector shapefiles: One file is points representing manholes and the other is a polyline file representing pipes leading to and from the manholes. I need to snap the lines within a ...
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Snapping points to lines in ArcGIS Desktop and automate using VBA?
I use ArcGIS Desktop and I want create a network with a point feature and a line feature. I need my point features to be on the line features so I should do Snap point to line.
However, I do not ...
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Finding nearest line to point in QGIS
Given a point and few lines, how should I go about finding the nearest line to the point?
I am aware of Finding nearest line to point using ArcGIS Desktop (ArcObjects/ArcPy)?, but that is in ArcGIS ...
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Turn a map canvas into a vector layer in QGIS
I ran a program that created points on the nearest edge of a polygon, but it only appears in the iface.mapLayer() canvas.
The code is taken from the answer in: https://gis.stackexchange.com/a/94428
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Connecting lines with point in QGIS
I have two shapefiles
Blue network
yellow locations
as shown in the below figure.
I want to connect all yellow dots with the blue lines blue as shown in red color in the figure.
Is there a way to ...
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Writing PyQGIS Output to Shapefile
I'm trying to find the closest point on a line to another point as in this post. However when I try to write the result as a shapefile I get an error:
TypeError: QgsVectorFileWriter.addFeature(...
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Snap points to end points of line within 50cm radius in MapInfo Pro
Is there a way in MapInfo Pro to automatically move a point dataset to the end points of a line that's within 50cm of a point?
This is an existing dataset so it's not simply turning on snapping. ...
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Distance between reference point to many Points along a line
I have a Line layer and a Point layer in Qgis. The lines snapped to the points. I need the distance between the reference Point (number 12 in the image) to the other points along the line.
I have ...
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