Questions tagged [distance]
The measure of separation between two entities or locations that may or may not be connected, such as two points.
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Distance matrix not giving nearest point in QGIS [closed]
I'm having a bit of trouble with my procedures in QGIS Desktop 3.22.6.
I bring in a shapefile for the entire US block groups into QGIS. I then bring in points of stores across the U.S. I then use the ...
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Distance between polygons and points in geopandas
I have a main polygon of ploygons that have areas mapped out on a map
and a bunch of points such as sample below
NAME lt ln
1 12.9336806 77.6122669
2 12.974768 77.767745
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Change the resolution of the friction surface raster and compute cumulative travel time in R
I have downloaded the 2015 friction surface from the Malaria Atlas project website (see bottom of the page). On their websites, authors specify that the measure units of such a raster are minutes to ...
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Values of Euclidean distance not in meters when using WGS 1984 coordinates system ArcGIS Pro
I'm new to ArcGIS Pro.
I want to apply Euclidean distance on main roads and then reclassify the values based on the distance from certain object
but when I perform the tool I get the values, not in ...
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Calculating missing points on line vector in QGIS
I have a linear vector of a river subdivided in 55 traits, all connected to each other. In 5points along the river i toke some measurements. What I want to do is to calculate the values in the 50 ...
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Determining mile marker locations on railroad route LineStrings
Page 7 of the Texas SP Austin and Northwestern Railroad Historic District--Fairland to Llano NRHP application says the following:
Contributing and Noncontributing properties are noted by two sets of ...
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Leaflet: Illustrate distance along path, like "measure distance" in Google Maps
In a map in a web application, I would like to illustrate distance along a path, like how it is done with the measure distance tool in Google Maps (see attached image).
Is there a way to do this in ...
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Illustrate distance along path, like "measure distance" in Google Maps using Mapbox GL JS
In a map in a web application, I would like to illustrate distance along a path, like how it is done with the measure distance tool in Google Maps (see attached image).
Is there a way to do this in ...
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Projected coordinate system for Sierra Leone
I am using geographic datasets of households (clusters) and mines in Ghana,Sierra Leone, and Liberia (I am analyzing each country separately). I am trying to calculate the distance between each ...
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Choosing correct CRS to calculate distance and create buffers for datapoints in Ghana [closed]
I am using geographic datasets of households and mines in Ghana,Sierra Leone, and Liberia (I am analyzing each country separately). I am trying to calculate the distance between the clusters and the ...
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How to calculate the distance and Azimuth from Point A to Point B in QGIS
Looking to add the Distance and the Azimuth from SPLat/SPLong and to EPLat/SPLong Points. Is there an easy way to do this in QGIS.
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Finding distance and attributes from one feature to another?
My goal is to have a final parcel layer include fields containing road name and distance to the nearest road segment. I'm using ArcMap and tried running the Near tool but it only returns distances.
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Comparing two point layers - want to make out point within a certain distance
I just started playing with GIS. A project I came up with, which I personally would find interesting is to find plots which within a certain distance to the high voltage power cables.
I have the point ...
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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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When drawing a polygon in QGIS, finding a point defined by two known distances
I'm looking for some tool or process that runs just like a tool present in Arcmap called 'Distance Distance'.
For example, to draw a irregular polygon defining the first four points, I would like to ...
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Calculating distance from point to line, depending on unique ID using QGIS
I have four points of interest for each plot, a line representing the segment that faces the road and the plots themselves for representation purposes (all of them share in common an unique "id&...
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Qgis 3.22.6: Field calculator in model gives back null values [duplicate]
I'm trying to calculate distance between 2 points that were previously extracted by expression. The modell right now looks like this (the other processes are deactivated):
The models input is point ...
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Normalize distance between U.S. counties so that adjacent counties are unit distance away
High level problem: I'd like a "distance" metric that measures adjacency rather than euclidean distance.
Details: I'm looking for a way to normalize distance between U.S. counties so that ...
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Distance along line network between set of points to set of hubs
I am trying to measure distance between towns (light grey in attached screenshot) and their district capitals (light purple) along usable roads (dashed blue). I used the GRASS v.distance plugin to ...
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R Distance from Point to Line: Negative if within shape
I'm working with Brazilian deforestation data - specifically two sf objects:
A point shapefile on environmental fines (centroid of land plots that have been fined for deforestation).
A polygon of (...
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Distance between two points on OSM without routing information
I need to find the distance between multiple points following roads on OSM.
I am aware of routing software like OSRM.
However, this is not a useful solution for me (at least the alternatives I've ...
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Distances between countries based on borders in R?
I am trying to calculate the distances using rnaturalearth.
library(rnaturalearth)
kr = ne_countries(returnclass="sf")
d = st_distance(kr[128,],kr)
but the following error appear:
Error ...
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Using ArcGIS Pro tools to determine front of polygons in relation to street lines
I am looking for help to develop a process to identify the sides and lengths of parcel polygons in relation to streets to determine the 'front' of the polygon, i.e. facing the street, so I can then ...
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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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Find minimum distance to US coastline in Python
I have the following code in Python:
import geopandas as gpd
world = gpd.read_file(gpd.datasets.get_path('naturalearth_lowres'))
us = world[world['name']=='United States of America'].dissolve(by='...
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Measuring distance between wavey lines/points in QGIS
In I want to design meandering lines on a plot at 5m distance apart. I am using the circular string tool so it's all by hand, ideally, they would be identical lines with a consistent 5m distance.
How ...
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Calculating coordinates of two GPS points whose line through them is perpendicular to two other GPS points
Given two GPS points A and B, I would like to compute the GPS coordinates A1 and A2. [A1A2] forms a segment perpendicular to segment [AB].
For this, I start to compute M1, which is the midpoint ...
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Calculate the distance between multiple points within a buffer in QGIS
I am very new to QGIS so please bear with me.
Attached is an image of my QGIS project so far. In this, you have the pinkish points of the "Point_centers" layer and green points labeled "...
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Visualizing proximity to nearest park in QGIS
I'm relatively new to QGIS but have undertaken a project trying to understand access to parks in a neighborhood of nyc. I want to visualize the proximity to the nearest park from the entrance of each ...
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Converting between lat/long/azimuth and distance/heading
I have three points, p1, p2, and p3, and I'm trying to find the distance between p2 and p3. I have the latitude and longitude coordinates for p1 and p2 and have the p3 - p1 distance in meters and ...
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Calculate distance between two lat/lon/alt points in Python
I'm trying to find out how to calculate the distance between two points with latitude, longitude, and elevation data.
I found that geographiclib.geodesic.Geodesic.WGS84.Inverse() outputs a s12 ...
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Distance package bootstrap error - 'by' must specify a uniquely valid column
Using package distance to run a bootstrap method for estimating precision of our results from distance sampling mule deer. We have messed with it for a while, trying to mimic other examples online but ...
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Calculate distance between two geometries using ArcPy
I have managed to write the following code where I am looping through features of "Source Layer", getting its primary and foreign key. Then selecting that feature using primary key from &...
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Identify points close to a line
Scenario
Layer 1 : shapefile lines representing roads
Layer 2 : shapefile points representing remarkable trees
Of course, the trees are not on the roads.
I want to identify the number of trees that ...
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EPSG:3857 : find approximate distance between points with PyQGIS? [closed]
I'm trying to calculate the distance between 2 points with different methods, eg QgsDistanceArea(), trigonometry ((x2-x1)**2 + (y2-y1)**2)**(1/2) I always get the same result, nearly 150% of the real ...
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Calculated distance field along GPX track
I have dropped a GPS breadcrumb track (.gpx format) onto my project. If I generate a a virtual field in this layer to calculate the distance between successive crumbs using the expression:
distance(($...
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Vector line length vs. geographical distance (as a bird flies) [closed]
Is there a way to compare the length of a line (ESRI Shapefile in my case) to the actual distance it covers with freely available tools?
I am developing an optional path algorithm. The image below ...
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Routing shortest paths between sets of Origins/Destinations
I have a dataset of cases as follows:
Case A - Orgin A - Destination A
Case B - Orgin B - Destination B
Case C - Orgin C - Destination C
etc.
I'm trying to calculate the shortest network distance ...
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The distance between two points on a linestring respecting the linestring course
I have a big dilemma that I can't get over as much as I'm looking for here.
I have on a linestring two points marked A and B, I want to calculate the distance between point A and point B as the line ...
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Recalculating distance table - is there fast (fast and dirty OK) way?
I have a system that is based on PostGIS that holds a set of coordinates.
It serves a lot of user requests where users send their own current coordinates and receive a set of points that are located ...
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Calculating distance along line to central point QGIS
I have a layer of various water courses. I have a central location which is a reintroduction site for an animal. I want to calculate the minimum distances along the lines of the water course to the ...
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Is there a relationship between driving distance and straight line distance?
For fun, I created an FME workflow that emails me the 10 cheapest fuel princes within 10km of my house.
I calculate both the driving distance along roads and the straight line distance.
Knowing that ...
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Why ST_DistanceSphere returns 0? [closed]
Why when I use ST_DistanceSphere() for obtain the distance in meters between to points I get 0 as result?
This is the query:
SELECT
ST_DistanceSphere(ST_MakePoint(54.1098335, 7.9320379), ...
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Getting distance of lines between points on map using Distance matrix in QGIS
I created a Distance matrix from a vector layer of 36 points. I want to show all the distance lines between all the points.
In the Distance matrix layer, I click Properties > Symbology, then under ...
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ArcMap calculating driving distance without Network Analyst
I'm using ArcMap 10.8. I need to find areas that are within 150 km driving distance of certain cities. Generate Service Areas with the Network Analyst extension seems to be capable of this, but I don'...
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Calculating distance between consecutive points in same point layer in QGIS
I have a point layer with close to 60.000 points that depict a river course (pixel extracts from satellite image). CRS of the layer is Geographic (Lat, Long).
The pixels are ordered ascendingly from ...
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Shortest path touching all points
I am looking for a solution to derive the shortest route that touches all the points using Python. Please note that
This is not a Travelling salesman problem (TSP), in which the route should end ...
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Measuring minimum distances for closest features between two polygon layers in QGIS
I am trying to find a way to measure minimum distance between two polygon layers in QGIS.
I have one polygon layer (orange) which represents hunting areas, and one polygon layer (green) which ...
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Fixed distance path to maximise value of raster layer
I am working in ArcGIS, but I think this is a little more a conceptual problem.
To summarise, I am trying to find a 10km path that both starts and ends on a road (roads are stored as a shapefile), and ...
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Appropriate distance and CRS
I want to use buffer function using miles or kilometers in Louisiana. I checked Changing unit of measure from degrees to meters in QGIS?. The original CRS is EPSG:4326 - WGS 84 - Geographic and the ...
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