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QGIS Simplifying polygons with keeping points inside of them

I'm creating a processing where I do calculations on address points inside of counties. I need to generalise county polygons in order to make my processing faster. How do I make sure that address ...
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Generalizing line with angle rules in QGIS

I'm looking for an automatic way to generalize/simplify vector lines in QGIS like the following picture : I would like the generalization to include only the angles indicated by the small star on the ...
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Simplifying label geometry in QGIS

I have a bunch of linear data (trails) stored in PostGIS and visualized in QGIS for cartographic production. Many trails have switchbacks, and are generally very "weavy", which makes for difficult ...
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Problem when using Simplify Tool in QGIS

I want to simplify district borders. As I got bad results when using polygons I converted those polygons into lines but I still have the same problem that I get new vertexes or corners I don't want. ...
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Generalising lines of varying detail in QGIS

I am trying to generalise a line in QGIS so that I can export it as a vector without it having an unnecessarily huge file size. The line shows the GPS track of a road trip, and as such varies between ...
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Wang's Bend Simplify in QGIS

I am looking for an alternative to ESRI's Simplify Polygons - Bend Simplify method (I only have a Basic License). Is there an existing QGIS plugin which supports this specific polygon simplifying ...
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Simplifying multiple lines to create central axis?

I have a layer with railway lines, downloaded from OpenStreetMap. Every single track is represented separately, so at trainstations, you have several parallel lines, as well as sidelines that lead to ...
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Convex boundary of polygon [closed]

Is there any tool that can help me with my problem? I have polygons looking like this : And what I want, is to simplify or gain convex boundary of such polygons. I tried Simplify Polygon in ArcMap, ...
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Remove small interstices on the edges of a polygone

How can I remove the white interstices on the edges (and interior) of a polygone or polyline, as represented in the first figure below? I want to get smooth and continuous edges, capturing the global ...
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qgis: generalisation & covex - how to? what plugin?

I'm looking for a way to generalize and simlify polygon to remove "internal spikes" as ilustrated below. The violet in input and green expected poligon.
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Simplify geometry of multiple features without losing shape [duplicate]

I am simplifying administrative boundaries using a high simplify tolerance (which is my intention so as to get a minimalist appearance). However, after simplification, the borders of the regions no ...
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Simplify/generalize Polygons and keep topology of different layers PostGIS/QGIS

I have some polygons of a country, states, districts, communities and I want to simplify the geometry. I already simplified the geometry of each layer but afterwards of course it doesnt fit with the ...
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Finding Ring Smaller than a certain tolerance

In Simplifying a shapefile for world timezones http://efele.net/maps/tz/world/ all generalize/simplify algorithms fail on 5 countries/states, shown in this shape file http://enclick.com/...
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