Questions tagged [differences]
A "difference" operation is a geoprocessing operation that completely removes one overlapping polygon and the intersection of that polygon from the other. It uses one polygon to "take a bite" out of another.
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how to do difference operation with jsts / ES6 module
In TypeError: a.union is not a function I asked about how to do a union operation and was told that to do so I'd need to do this:
import UnionOp from 'jsts/org/locationtech/jts/operation/union/UnionOp....
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Difference tool retains records of deleted point features (without geometry)
I was using the Difference tool in QGIS version 3.22 on a points layer with a polygon overlay. This failed. I read this problem is commonly reported in 3.22 and upgraded to 3.30.3, as advised.
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Multiple subtraction raster in QGIS
For each year from 1951 to 2021 I have two rasters: one precipitation (P) and the other evapotranspiration (E).
I want to do P minus E for each year--so I would like one output of the subtraction (P-E)...
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How to create one raster layer from two raster layers in which priority is given to one of the raster layers' values (the smaller in extent)
I have two raster layers of elevation data. One, of a larger extent, - 'warped' - is to 25m definition. The other, of much smaller extent - '194555-1_25cm_DSM' - but within the bounds of the larger ...
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Remove parts of line that are not contained within multiline
PostgreSQL 14.6, Postgis 3.2
I have two tables, new_geom and original_geom
new_geom is a derivation of original_geom that merged some lines that touched and had the same properties. It worked fairly ...
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Calculating 2 or 4 new marginal bounding boxes from 2 overlapping bounding boxes in Leaflet?
The Scenario
I have a web map that calls for data whenever the map moves. It sends the bounds of the map and returns data within those bounds. Our data source just got way bigger, so I am trying to ...
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Mask polygon with raster layer
I have very large raster, whih is basically merge of smaller rassters :
I would like to create separate polygons for each "group" of pixels with values, to get something like this (sorry ...
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Masking two shapefiles with MultiLineString and MultiPolygon errors
I created a shapefile by converting a raster to a polygon using raster pixels to polygon tool and used this as a base layer to remove unwanted areas with difference tool. I added multiple shapefiles ...
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Comparing smoothing algorithms in R
I am comparing smoothing algorithms in R. More specifically, the raster.gaussian.smooth from the spatialEco package and the focal from the terra package. Visually, the results look similar but the ...
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Rasterio how to find same values in excel
I have two geographical tiff files, the difference is 20 years. There are some values in the pixels of these drawings. I need to find differences between the second file and the first one. I tried ...
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QGIS Vector Difference not removing features from Attribute Table
I have a point layer with some 33,000 features, and I remove those features that overlap a polygon using Vector/GeoProcessing tools/Difference. This produces a temporary layer that has some 12,000 ...
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Creating a layer showing difference before/after flood (raster)
I ran a supervised classification on two satellite images - (i) before and (ii) after a flood. Now even before the floods, there were pre-existing water bodies which obviously don't count as flooded ...
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Difference function in QGIS is extremly slow
I execute the difference function in QGIS. I have used it many times before, and it worked well.
For the final task I like to delete lines with my nationwide buffers. It is a lot, but I have had in ...
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Substracting rasters with a "buffer" to ignore slight offset?
I would like your help to understand my problem and formulate the appropriate question about it.
I have two maps of the same place at two different years, one from
1900, other from 1957 (British ...
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How can I get QGIS Difference tool to operate on different CRS? Or can I project a polygon to go "off the side" of the map to the other side?
I am attempting to map arctic regions. I have a predetermined area off the coast of Alaska that has longitudes both negative and positive. In a north pole azimuthal equidistant projection, it looks as ...
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PostGIS function ST_Difference changes geometry type [duplicate]
I am trying to use the ST_Difference tool within PostGIS. The intention is to take two multipolyogn layers that have some overlap and eliminate the overlap by taking the difference.
The problem is ...
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Vector Difference Multistring lines doesn't work 100% (QGIS)
I'm trying to substract one layer with multilinestring lines from another one. However, the layer that I get does have some (parts of) lines substracted, but not all. Does anyone know another tool ...
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How to subtract two Rasters with discrete values in R?
I'm working with these two rasters:
clc_forest18
class : RasterLayer
dimensions : 16000, 12000, 1.92e+08 (nrow, ncol, ncell)
resolution : 100, 100 (x, y)
extent : 4e+06, 5200000, 1200000, ...
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Cut smaller polygons out of larger ones in using R/sf
I've got a set of polygons containing overlapping geographical levels, both regions and cities. This is a simplified example:
I want to cut the cities out of the regions. So in the example above, I ...
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NBR difference in Google Earth Engine
I want to use two NBR images(NBR1 and NBR2) for the differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR). But I can't identify the error of dNBR output.
Code snippet:
var NBR1 = landsat8_1.expression(
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What could explain the bizarre discrepancy in the geometry between these two 3D maps?
GPS location: 33.67619789331771, -117.68029382324094
MapBox GL JS screenshot:
Google Maps screenshot:
What could explain this?
It should be noted that, for the places I actually know in real life, ...
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Trimming polygon based on its intersection with another polygon using shapely [closed]
I have two polygons intersecting with one another (x1 and x2). How can i trim x2 by the area it intersects with x1, such that x1 and x2 no longer overlap and x1 area/shape remains constant.
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Creating field with difference between areas of two layers in QGIS
In QGIS how can I get the difference between the areas of two layers through field calculator? And is there a way to automatize it so every time a new feature is added the difference updates?
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Increase tolerance of QGIS processing tools
I have 2 line layers in QGIS 3.22.0 and I
create a 10cm-buffer around line layer A (red)
perform a difference of line layer B (blue) with the buffer of layer A (light red)
As a result I get 1 ...
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ST_difference resulting in multiple overlapping polygons and no difference
I have a dataset with two layers of polygons:
Layer A: Areas of interest from the corine land cover inventory dataset
Layer B: Road network resulting from buffered linestrings that were aggregated by ...
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QGIS - clip buffered areas based on field value
I have several irregular, adjacent polygons which I first need to buffer, and then remove overlapping areas based on a field value.
This is where I start: irregular polygons with the relevant field ...
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Google Earth Engine subtraction (difference) of two geometries
I am trying to create a feature collection containing the difference (subtraction) between a larger geometry (e.g. the state of California) and a few smaller geometries within the larger area (e.g. a ...
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QGIS 3.18 difference doesn't work with points as the input layer
I am trying to run the difference algorithm with points as the input layer and a polygon as the overlay layer. I've tried many different point layers and polygon layers and it keeps giving me the ...
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Deleting sliver parts of single polygon using QGIS
The polygon highlighted in red is a single polygon that has slivers directly attached to it.
I used the Difference tool on two polygon layers which lead to slivers / fuzzy polygon parts (see picture). ...
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"Difference failed" error when using difference tool with point layers as input and overlay in QGIS
Is it possible in QGIS 3.16 to use the geoprocessing tool "Difference" with point layers as input and overlay?
The documentation seems to indicate that it is. However, when I do a test with ...
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Diffing many geometries from single area
Using the JTS library, I create a square Geometry representing water and diff from it large numbers of geometries representing land. At high zooms (think, Scandinavia), this can take a long time. Most ...
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Difference tool failing for QGIS map layers
I had tried to run the "Difference algorithm" on two layers. However, the process constantly fails with a message:
GEOS geoprocessing error: difference failed".
When I tried running ...
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Getting the 'composite' of two polygon layers
I have two table of polygons, and I want to 'flatten' them into one table, and have the result tell me which areas are in one table of polygons, which in the other table of polygons, and which are in ...
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QGIS Difference Algorithm: multilinestring won't work with multipolygon layer
I am working with two vector layers in QGIS (location: Indonesia). I want to 'subtract' the area of layer 1 ('Forest_buffer') of layer 2 (Scenario_1). I am using the Difference algorithm. Layer 2 is ...
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Compare two layers and find the percentage of the shared areas that are different between them
I have two shapefiles that identify flood zones for the same general area but in different years. The maps, however, do not cover exactly the same geographical areas (e.g., shapefile 1 covers counties ...
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PostGIS - ST_Difference creates extra line segment
I have some line of sights from one point, collected into a multilinestring. I want to cut the multilinestring using PostGIS' ST_Difference and a border-dataset (a single multipolygon).
I used this ...
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Using PostGIS to find the overall difference between two (large) polygon datasets
I need to get the Difference of an input layer with ~30k polygons and an overlay layer with ~500k polygons (of which ~200k intersect the input layer).
I am trying to learn PostGIS to do this, as it ...
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PostGIS: Using ST_CoveredBy (or similar) to speed up Difference on large datasets?
I need to get the Difference of a single large-area polygon (input layer) and a very numerous set of polygons (overlay layer). The overlay layer has ~500k polygons, of which ~200k intersect the input ...
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QGIS v/s MapInfo - Differences in Distance Measurements
Distance calculated in different software (MapInfo and QGIS) has given me differences in distance values. To be more precise, it's mostly happening when the distance is more than 25 miles. I doubt ...
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Difference tool for rasters
I am using QGIS 3.16.0 and I need to find the difference between two rasters that overlap in some areas (basically I need the areas that are not overlapped). First, I tried polygonizing the smaller ...
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Select points outside of polygon in Google Earth Engine
I understand how to get the points that fall inside a polygon with GEE:
// Load a feature collection and a area of interest
var dataset1 = ee.FeatureCollection("link/to/any/point/dataset/on/gee&...
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GEOS geoprocessing error when using difference tool in QGIS
I am using QGIS version 3.14.0. I have about 20 polygon .shp-files with overlaps between files. All are in the same projection. I've been using the difference tool to remove the overlaps and then ...
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"difference" between two rasters using raster calculator QGIS
I am struggling to find the right equation to use in the raster calculator to achieve my desired result.
Essentially, I have two rasters, with an overlapping portion. See img below:
I want to only ...
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QGIS difference operation with XYZ tiles
I have a regular layer from a database containing WKT polygons. I'm also using a XYZ Tiles layer of Google Maps. I would like to perform the Vector > Geoprocessing Tools > Difference operation ...
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Difference between two features in same polygon in QGIS
I have a polygon and some features are below another features. If I would have two different polygons I would use the "Difference" tool so it would take the overlapping feauters to the "...
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Difference in geometries of shapefiles
I have the geometry of the outline region as part of one shapefile (which is only one feature and there are other features in it apart from this). Other polygon regions' boundaries which are colored ...
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Using QGIS Difference with Point and Polygon
After installing a fresh QGIS 3.10 version on a Windows computer I recently saw an unexpected behavior of the "Difference" feature from QGIS. (on one of my old computer with QGIS 3.4 it is different)
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Calculate difference of two LineString
The tool I'm developing is written in Java with Spring Boot, using PostgreSQL as database (PostGIS extension). I also make use of GeoTools.
I want to calculate the geometrical difference between two ...
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Difference tool QGIS shows too many Differences
After running QGIS Difference Tool, I get a lot of differences, but I don't know where they are coming from. The input files are almost similar...
Input Image (overlay input almost the same, but from ...
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Finding differences between polygons in PostGIS
I have another redistricting question. The datasets and queries available on my GitHub, but I will include the queries here, too.
I am working on two complete datasets:
1) A PLAN - composed of ...
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