Questions tagged [closest-distance]
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Connecting points to the nearest K polygons in QGIS
I have a layer of point data, and a layer that contains polygons of all the lakes in a region. I am trying to find the K closest of these lakes for each point. The distance should be measured from the ...
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Minimized distance between points while staying INSIDE of a designated polygon
I am a fisheries student and am currently tracking fish movement in a lake. I am trying to assess their optimum/minimized distance moved between each sequential location for each fish. However, I can ...
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How to obtain the closest mean distance between two pseudoparallel lines
From two layers (LINE_1 and LINE_2) with a irregular pseudoparallel lines geometry, my goal is to obtain the closest mean distance between two pseudoparallel lines.
Here I publish a screenshot with ...
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Drawing line to the nearest point following a attribute hierarchy
With a point layer and a attribute table formed by the field "HIERACHY", where there are 3 values (3,2,1). The meaning of the values is from highest to lowest relevance in descending order: ...
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Point to Polyline Distance & Angle ArcGIS Pro
Using ArcGIS Pro Advanced license 3.0.3
I have a dataset of 200 or so lines. The task is to calculate the distance between these lines on the right and the left of the line at given intervals. ...
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Calculate the distance between a single point and multiple polygons using PostGIS
I’m working with a very large dataset and I need to calculate the shortest distance between a single point and the closest edge from multiple polygons. I need to use PostGIS because such a task with a ...
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Why do dist2Line and st_nn give slightly different distances?
I have some points and am finding the distance to the nearest state border. My question is: why do dist2Line and st_nn give slightly different answers for the distances?
The code below is based on ...
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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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Unit of GeoPandas distance function after determining closest coastal line of a point
I am using this (I think working) code to find the distance of a lat/long point to some open source coast lines.
import os
import geopandas as gpd
import pandas as pd
os.chdir(r"C:\Users\...
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Calculate distance from point to polygon edge in QGIS
I am trying to calculate the distance of around 90 points from the closest edge of a polygon. I a currently using QGIS Version 3.22.8.
I have reviewed previous answers at this link that fits my ...
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Creating lines indicating the shortest distance points to line in QGIS [duplicate]
How can I create lines indicating the shortest distance from a points dataset to a to line, avoiding the line to points tool first?
In the past (at another company) we used MapInfo "Distance ...
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Calculate Distance (in miles) from Point to Polygon Edge in QGIS
I am attempting to calculate the distance from a point to the nearest polygon edge (county boundary). I have approximately 80 points and want to find the closest county edge for all of the points and ...
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Dynamic closest point with subgroups in unique layer in QGIS
I work in forest and I need to export plans for students. They have to designate some trees on field (a forest plot with all trees numbered) and I get a CSV list with the student's number, the tree's ...
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