Questions tagged [borders]
A part that forms the outer edge of something.
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Detect in a program if a point is close to a country outline
I have some data for country borders.
I am making a small program that need to load a border on demand when a position in the program gets close to a country (which consists of multiple loops of GPS ...
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Display each contact line for different polygons from same layer with different colours
Any idea on how to display polygons as borders, but keeping both contacting borders, without gaps, and keeping the colours of each polygon? The polygon should have no fill.
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Calculating length of common boundary with virtual layer in QGIS problem with output
I'm calculating the length of common borders of 10 sets of polygons with the solution posted in this question: https://gis.stackexchange.com/a/360776
In 8 of the 10 datasets everything works fine, but ...
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Discontinuous Lines
For so long, I have been trying to create a map with lines of the width of a single pixel, like the one above.
...But what I end up getting every attempt is what looks like the above map, with cuts ...
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Data sources that can be used to retrieve country from latitude, longitude, and date
I have seen countless questions asking about converting latitude / longitude coordinates into country, state, town, etc., but I found no question which includes a time component. I have tried many ...
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How can I merge the borders of two countries within the same shapefile?
I have a shapefile which visualise the countries of EU as polygons.
The problem I have is that each country is formed by a fill colour and an outline color. The outline color is key because it ...
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How to force close polygon to overlap/share the border
I am using a shapefile of Brazilian municipalities, so there should be no gap between the polygons. Unfortunately, there are some:
It seems to be fine, but a closer look reveal the problem (note the ...
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How to associate point to nearest state boundary outside of the state the point is in
I have a point within a state and I want to find 1) the distance to the nearest state border and 2) the bordering state's name. I am able to do 1). For 2). I am able to get the state name ...
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Removing overlaps from buffered line features in ArcGIS Pro
I know this question has been asked already but it seems that there is still no answer to it:
My buffered streets shapefiles (which consists of many different segments/objects) overlay where the ...
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Clipping and borders don't match in GMT (Generic Mapping Tools)
I try to make a map where a single country is highlighted to stand out from the rest of the map. I use this code that does what I want:
AREA=-15/26/0/37r
COUNTRY_CODE=MA
PROJ=M288p
gmt begin test-...
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Removing black lines in between shapes in QGIS
In QGIS 3.22.7 I have a large dataset consisting of small square geometries (for reproducibility, a sample of this data can be downloaded from here; the total file size is 9 KB for all of them).
When ...
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How to add coastline over a plot of a RasterLayer in R?
I'm working with raster images. I need to add the european coastline over this plot(fdiff_north) in order to get a more usable image`:
I got this plot by using these codes:
ext <- c(4e+06, 5200000,...
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Calculating distance to a specific boundary of a multipolygon [closed]
I have a dataset of electric charging station coordinates in LA and multipolygons of school district boundaries. I want to calculate the shortest distance between each station within each district and ...
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"Duplicate column name" error when calculating length of shared boundaries between multiple polygons using Virtual Layer in QGIS
Similarly to the poster from this question, I am trying to calculate the length of the boundaries between several polygons. I have two types of polygons (1:blue and 2:pink), but I don't think that ...
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Higher resolution of country borders
I have been looking and looking for a long while, but I was unable to find any freely available datasets for country borders with resolution higher than 1:1000000. I found this strange as I thought ...
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Making stroke for neighboring objects with common attribute value in QGIS
All countries have their colors according to different values. And I need to additionally mark with a stroke those countries that are in the YES category. If there are few countries next to each other,...
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What tool do I need to visualize world map with straight border while keeping its area and neighboring countries
I am fairly new to data visualization.
My goal is:
Turning country area into right angled polygon with same area
Keeping the neighboring country tangent to its new border
Finding the new arrangement ...
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How to automatically align the edges of features to other features from an other fetaure class?
I have two feature classes containing polygons. One (lets call it A) covers the whole area of interest without any gap or overlap. The other (B) has polygons scattered over the area. The features of B ...
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Calculating minimum distance between point and border using R
I want to generate the shortest distance between this province's capital to the China border. I want to calculate a minimum distance between a point and a border using R. My code is as follows, but ...
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Length of shared borders between polygons using Virtual Layers
I have a map with many counties, and I estimated the length of the common borders using one of the answers from this question posted a year ago.
The properties of my layer look like this:
I did the ...
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PostGIS align borders of countries
New to PostGIS. I have USA & Canada vector data. The borders have small gaps or overlaps. I want to use PostGIS to align one border to another border. We are free to add or remove vertices.
I have ...
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Extracting all possible polygons from set of different types of geometrical elements
I have an input, a set of different types of 2D geometrical elements with all its attributes (arcs, circles, lines, polylines, rectangles, polygons..). These elements can be connected end to end, ...
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Seeking detailed Cyprus borders shapefile
I need to to show the Republic of Cyprus, the TRNC, the Buffer Zone and the British Bases.
I've looked everywhere and every time it only shows the Republic, which makes sense as it is the UN ...
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How to create border around multiple polygons
Spent hours on a search. No luck. I need to create a border around selected adjacent polygons. Concave Hull and Convex Hull don't give the desired results. It seems to be a simple request. The problem ...
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Shared border between polygons with Geopandas
How could I measure the shared border of a polygon with other polygons in Geopandas?
The result could be an n x n matrix of polygons with the longitude of the segment of border they share.
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Showing only outer boundaries of polygons / features in QGIS
I started with the Natural earth admin 0 - Countries vector layer. Based on this, I created a new layer (using the 'Collect Geometries' tool) that only contains 26 features, representing major world ...
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Removing Border from Layer List Symbology
When I launched my webapp on our server I noticed these little black boundary boxes appeared around the symbology in my layer list. This is my first webapp deployed using WebAppDev so I'm fairly new ...
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Eliminating border in project
My QGIS project consists of two adjacent Canadian NTS map sheets. Each sheet consists of multiple shape files. Each set of shape files has a border. How do I eliminate the border?
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Multicolor inside borders for polygons in QGIS 3
I was reading a report and I came across a figure that I quite liked the look of. I found that the author uses a black border for all of their polygons coupled with inside colored lines which just hug ...
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No margins displayed in Layout view of ArcMap
I have an issue with Layout View in ArcMap. I need the layout view to look like this (note the white margins around the map):
At the moment, it looks like this:
My version of ArcGIS Desktop is 10.7....
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ArcGIS: Selecting features from a grid layer which are on the edge of another feature by location
I have two layers which come from the same data source. The first one is a vector grid layer which contains 1km x 1km features and looks like this:
The second one is the grid layer dissolved into Sub-...
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Create outer polygon using raster
How to create the outlet border only while using raster data in ArcMap? I am already using raster to vector converting format but it did not help.
Can you tell me or explain about other way?
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Number of Points on the edges (number of districts at country border)
I'm extremely new on QGIS and I have a district map of India which looks like this.
I want the data of districts situated on the border. Basically, with each district there will be another column ...
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Generating a graphic for publication: How to change color and border weight of shapefiles in ArcGIS Pro 2.4.0?
I am trying to generating a graphic for publication. I am using ArcGIS Pro 2.4.0, and I am trying to draw a border around experiment plots using a rectangular shape file. As can be seen in the below ...
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Calculating length of common boundary lines of two polygon in QGIS
I have a map consisting various district. How can I estimate the length of the common boundary shared by any two corresponding districts/polygons in QGIS?
For example if a polygon "A" shares ...
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Polygons from two different shapefiles that share common border in QGIS?
I have two shapefiles, which are village administrative units in this case.
Given that these two shapefiles share a common boundary/border is it possible to get the border units (villages) on both ...
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Keeping only internal borders in QGIS
I'm looking for the QGIS equivalent of TopoJSON's mesh function which goes through a vector layer and only keeps borders that are shared between multiple features. Here's an example of the output -- ...
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Remove points that are close to a border when building a grid
I want to remove the points that are close to a boarder when building a grid, i am using the sf library from R.
library(sf)
library(raster)
library(ggplot2)
shp <- getData('GADM', country = 'aut',...
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Designing Borders with QGIS
My task is to reproduce a map of a specific place. The problem are the borders which I can´t reproduce in QGIS.
The attached picture shows the line. It looks like a polygon filled with slashes.
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Wrong values after resizing (resampling) rasters using cv2.resize (Python)
I have two images (aerial photographs):
ImageA is 4740x4240 and cell size is 0.1 m
ImageB is 1849x1653 and cell size is 0.25 m.
I want ImageB with the same size than ImageA. I used the following ...
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Removing border that appears in map exported with arcpy.mapping.ExportToPDF?
I am exporting the current mxd map with all the layers that appear but it saves it with a framework around it. How can I get rid of it? It appears as well when I export to other formats.
mxd = arcpy....
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Calculating total shared boundary between polygons based on their attributes?
I tried to do this over the weekend but had no luck - even after searching this forum. I'm trying to calculate the frontage (length of the property bordering the street) of a number of properties. I'...
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Changing the color and near ocean with QGIS
The border of region near ocean looks looks very fat. How can I change color of border lines near ocean to make it thicker? I want to change color and thikness of line only near oceans
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Editing border shape using QGIS?
I add a shapefile of the district in Paris on another shapefile. I would like to match them. See images below:
The black border is the original, the blue one is what I want to get.
I tried with the ...
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Border Legend Same As Map Backgorund
How create legend border same as map background like in the image? I'm just can get the border white like the rest of legend frame. I'm trying in Arcmap and ArcGIS Pro.
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Maintaining Borders when Merging shapefiles?
I am trying to merge two layers of a map which includes the state and county levels. I was able to edit the borders to look how I want, but when I merge them I am struggling to keep the style ...
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Setting dashed stroke style when layers have features with sharing borders in QGIS
Layers like municipalities, countries,... have features sharing the border of their neighbours: they share the same vertices (except for the features at the edges off course).
I have a municipality ...
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Connect outline gaps at vector shape
Could someone shed some light into a method to link breaking outline borders without much distortion from the original like e.g. convex hull does?
Convex hull alternative ideas are of course welcome ...
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Preventing Google Earth Engine exporting image with black border?
When I import my image into ArcGIS Desktop I get a black border around the region that didn't exist before in Google Earth Engine (GEE).
How can I prevent GEE from doing this when I export an image?
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Drawing border using R in shapefile based on dummy variable?
For an analysis in R I want to create a "new" border from a shapefile. The Shapefile comes with a dummy variable (zone_dummy) indicating the regions laying east and west from the border (see example ...
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