Questions tagged [offset]
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Connecting offset point symbol to its original position in QGIS?
I'm drawing a track where I want to place icons (point symbols), but with an offset so that the line is fully visible. Here is an example:
The origin is exactly on the track, therefore when zooming ...
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Line Offset Tool in QGIS 3 not working between different layers
In QGIS2 it was possible to use the lineoffset tool between two different layers. You could for examle use a polygon from a different layer to generate an offset line in your linelayer.
In QGIS3 this ...
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What is the sIgnificance of equator in GPS offset calculation?
I am going through a SAE document where it says that the GPS offsets (NodeLL) should be calculated in such a way that the range should be within one of these:
ranges of +- 0.0008191 degrees
ranges of ...
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Producing offset after georeferencing Soviet topographical military maps from printed control point coordinates in QGIS
I have 'acquired' a collection of scans of (previously top-secret) Soviet-era military topographical maps at a set of 1:25.000. I want to georeference a set of these scans.
I know the coordinate ...
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QGIS draw line segments with “geometry generator” based on segments angle
I have quite a hard problem to solve here and I don't know if its even possible with the geometry functions in QGIS. I have a line geometry with equidistant vertices, that is, same length segments. ...
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Does QGIS Cloud support offsets for symbology?
I used the offset settings for symbols in QGIS 2.18 but when uploaded to Cloud, the offsets don't seem to exist.
Can this setting be used in QGIS Cloud or is there an alternative?
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Offsetting 100 ft from line feature while editing in ArcMap?
I have the ArcGIS 10.6 advanced lisense. I am trying to offset a line feature using the editor tool. I know that I can do it in COGO, but how to set the unit as ft. In COGO, the offset unit option is ...
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PostGIS generate lanes for multilinestring map (ST_OffsetCurve)
I currently have a road network for specific area as multilinestrings. It only shows the road as a single line. I would like to generate lanes for that as well, using some kind of offset. The problem ...
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Offset line, when zooming out line extends at intersections
[1[]2I'm doing offset in ArcGIS in a cartographic line symbol. Before the offset the line in all scales appears OK. But when zooming out, the offset line extends out at intersections. While when ...
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Map Offset, Design not in Line with Map when I load my workspace
We are facing an issue when using QGIS to plan and design FTTx networks. We create the design and it all looks great and print it via composer to be validated on site but when we go back into the ...
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How to offset points from a coastline
I need to create a set of points with a fixed spacing and given distance from a a georeferenced coastline. My idea is trying to obtain a parallel line and then placing points on it.
To do the first ...
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Offsetting polygons by meters with clipper
I would like to create buffered polygons of locations (towns, villages etc) in order to use them for searching in radius.
This is what I would like to achieve (units for ilustration):
This is how I ...
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Adding offset to overlapping lines in qgis in same layer?
I have ONE layer of linestrings and some of them are overlapping, I need to display the overlapping lines with an offset.
I have seen the solution using the offset in style for the whole layer but it ...
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Is there a way to use windowing functions (lag, lead) within the QGIS Field Calculator?
I am keen to compute a windowing function on values in QGIS. I was not able to find a lag/lead function. I think this could be emulated using @rownumber and $currentfeature, but I am not expert in ...
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ArcPy Solution for Copy Parallel
This question has been marked as a duplicate multiple times now. Please read the entire question before flagging it as a duplicate. The previous "duplicates" for questions about copy parallel do not ...
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GDAL gdalwarp usage on QGis - how to set cell position of the clipped raster to be equal to the origin of the source cell
I work on a Windows QGis 2.14 platform. I need to clip a raster with a vectorial polygon. When I use gdalwarp I cannot find where is the setting for establishing the output graticule position respect ...
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Lat/Lon point transformation/offset on arbitrary segment
I'm looking for something very similar to those stack exchange GIS questions:
Algorithm for offsetting a latitude/longitude by some amount of meters, How to convert (geodetic pose + cartesian offset) ...
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Create offset polygon
I am looking for a method that enables to create offset polygons with a defined distance in ArcGIS. Like in Sketch Up, it allows to create the exact same shaped polygon as its input (selected) polygon....
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add scalefactor and offset to NetCDF
I am converting some NetCDF files from Float32 to either 16bit or 8bit to safe space on a server.
Since I Originally created these NetCDF using GeoTIFF´s this is where I apply the conversion before ...
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Preventing Symbols offset in map from being offset in legend of QGIS?
I've been searching for a solution to this, but cannot seem to find an answer. I have a map where some stacked markers have been offset to be visible on the map. This makes their symbol offset in the ...
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Multiple and Sequential Parallel from line
I have a vector line and I want to create multiple sequential parallel lines of this line.
How can I do that ?
For example, in AutoCAD you can do many offsets by a determined distance, and I want ...
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Data Defined Override XY offset input
I have several rectangular polygons that overlap each other and I'd like to label them with the ID's (for atlas page numbers). The image below shows my initial setup. I've offset each label from the ...
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Alternative to Event layer plugin for QGIS > 2.8?
It appears to me and from another post that the qgis "Event layer" plugin is not fully functional in versions above 2.8.
Trials using versions 2.14 & 2.18 failed to generate a Point memory layer. ...
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How do I zoom/Pan to a Leaflet Map, such that the given point is off-center?
In my Leaflet Application, on some event, I want to zoom to a particular marker, and then show it's popup. I have certain other custom components on top of the map, and the Popup that appears, is ...
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Using a formula to set the offset of a line pattern on QGIS 2.18
I’ve been trying to fill city boundaries polygons with a 3 colors stripes pattern (red, orange, green), whose respective thickness is proportional to 3 variables, different for each city, but whose ...
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Generating line offset, perpendicular using PostGIS?
I'm trying to generate two line offsets from a line but I'm having problems generating them as they should be.
Using PostGIS
select st_asgeojson(st_union(the_geom)) from (
select ST_Line_Substring(...
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How to write a CASE WHEN expression for label offset?
I would like to label to feature with id 1 and 2 with offset x of -10 mm and the offset y with 5 mm. But on the GUI there is only one data defind overried. Is it possible to change that for the x and ...
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Is there a Field Calculator or GUI based way to move points by angle and distance in QGIS?
In QGIS what is the best way of moving an existing point (or digitising a new point) when you have:
the starting x,y (UTM) coordinate;
the angle from compass bearing towards the unknown point, and;
a ...
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How to graphically offset the boundary line of a polygon in QGIS?
In Arcgis, there is a way to offset graphically the contour line of a polygon like below. I'm trying to do the same thing in a styling method (i.e the solution can't be by buffering physically the ...
