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Nearest distance between point and line layers in QGIS
As an alternative, you could:
Use the Convert Lines to Points tool from:
Processing Toolbox > SAGA > Shapes - Points > Convert Lines to Points
(Add points over small distances. E.g. add a point ...
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Drawing lines from points in QGIS
To create polygons from points, you can also use
"Points to path", then
"Lines to polygons" tools without need to install any plugin
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Creating points in specified distance along line using QGIS？
There is now a plugin called QChainage that does exactly what you want. You specify an interval distance and the plugin creates points along your line at the specified interval.
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Creating all possible line segments between all points using QGIS
You can achieve your goal using the Field Calculator.
Using the Geometry Generator, with Linestring geometry type, use this expression:
collect_geometries(
array_foreach(
aggregate('...
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Creating line segments at point coordinates in QGIS
One possible tool is "Geometry by expression" in the Processing Toolbox > Vector geometry (search in the Processing Toolbox Ctrl+Alt+T).
A Geometry expression to create lines (length= ...
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Calculating the longest distance within polygon in QGIS
You can use PyQGIS to measure the distances between all vertices of each polygon and find max:
import itertools
layer = iface.activeLayer() #Click layer in tree
for feat in layer.getFeatures():
...
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Creating all possible line segments between all points using QGIS
You can make use of the virtual layers.
Go to Layer/ Add layer/ add-edit virtual layer and enter the following query. Feel free to add as many field as you want. The trick is to do a cross-join on the ...
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Calculating the longest distance within polygon in QGIS
Bear in mind that someone correctly pointed out very soon in comments that I had misread the question. My answer gives the diameter of the minimal circle but this does not always correspond to the ...
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How to create a multipart polygon?
For anyone coming to this with newer versions of QGIS, the function to do it is now called "Collect Geometries" rather than "Single parts to Multipart" so it's now Vector > Geometry Tools > Collect ...
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Creating points in specified distance along line using QGIS？
In QGIS 3 (at least in QGIS 3.10) there is a processing tool for that purpose: "Points along geometry"
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Drawing lines to nearest points in QGIS
This should be possible without any plugin using the default Processing tools, particularly Distance to nearest hub:
https://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/processing_algs/qgis/...
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Creating lines between points within distance in QGIS
Using the distance, you could create a "Virtual Layer" that connects nearby points.
Go to the menu Layer > Add Layer > Add/Edit Virtual Layer... and enter the following query.
Note ...
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Creating polygons with fixed extent based on point which represents S/W corner using QGIS
In QGIS, use "Geometry by Expression" tool (in a projected CRS). It will also add points information/attributes to polygons.
Select "Polygon" as "Output geometry type" ...
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Drawing lines from points in QGIS
In QGIS 3.x instead of the plugin mentioned above, you can find the "Points to path" tool in your Processing Toolbox (Ctrl+Shift+T). Works exactly the same...
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Split polyline by point using 'sf' package in R
If you snap the point to the line then you can split the line and then extract the parts from the resulting collection. Use a really small tolerance, I don't know how small it needs to be...
> ...
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Creating polygons with fixed extent based on point which represents S/W corner using QGIS
Using a Virtual layer, you can create a polygon of the desired dimension and move it to each location of the point layer. You can then save as the output if you want to persist the data.
Go to the ...
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Drawing rows in field at the same distance from each other
You can use the Create Grid tool for this task.
Also the Clip tool can be useful for removing lines outside the polygon boundaries.
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How to convert points to lines?
One approach is to convert this to raster and then extract contours
Another is to find the buffer for each point;Dissolve those buffers to get a narrow polygon;Find the center line of each dissolved ...
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Converting polygon to lines without duplicate edges?
If you are not forced to use QGIS, another Open Source GIS software OpenJUMP http://openjump.org/ has a Planer Graph tool that may be exactly what you need.
Here you can find the tool.
If you need ...
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Creating line segments at point coordinates in QGIS
I put an example of solving the same task with a PyQGIS (3.2) standalone application.
Below is the Python code:
import sys
import math
from qgis.core import (QgsPointXY,
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Creating lines connecting each possible pair of points in PostGIS
In PostGIS, this can be done quite easily with a Cartesian product or CROSS JOIN in SQL, ie, joining a table on itself and using the 2nd form of ST_MakeLine. So, assuming a table called points with an ...
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How can I switch line direction from the Linux commandline?
Use the ogr2ogr utility with the ST_REVERSE function in a SQL statement and OGR SQLite dialect:
For example:
ogr2ogr -dialect SQLITE -sql "select st_reverse(GEOMETRY), * from input" output.shp input....
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Getting Polyline (Linestring) coordinates from line layer in QGIS
First, add a field (name: geometry, type: string, length: 1000 keep it long). Then use the following script:
lyr = iface.activeLayer()
with edit(lyr):
for f in lyr.getFeatures():
f["...
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Merging lines with slightly different endpoints in QGIS
There is this QGIS plugin which says it does exactly what you want.
https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/joinmultiplelines/
https://github.com/dgoedkoop/joinmultiplelines
(However, I was not able to ...
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Switching line direction in QGIS
Based on Nathan's post I've created a processing script to reverse the direction of features:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# define Interface
##QGIS tools (QGIS 2.x)=group
##Reverse ...
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Switching line direction in QGIS
This plugin reverses the line direction too:
https://hub.qgis.org/projects/swapvectordirection
You have to select a feature, and turn the layer into edit mode before clicking on the plugin icon.
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Finding longest straight line within polygon in QGIS
This is also an approximation. It finds the longest line between existing polygon vertices within each polygon. So the more vertices you have the better the results should be (but the executing time ...
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