Questions tagged [point]
A geometric element defined by a pair of x,y coordinates.
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Is there a QGIS plugin that creates evenly spaced points within a polygon layer?
I’m looking for a way to automate a task in QGIS. Given a polygon layer, I need to generate a specified number of points inside it, with a fixed spacing (e.g., points every 2 meters). Doing this ...
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Using ArcPy UpdateCursor to remove Z geometry
I am trying to remove my Z values from a points layer, and the Z Val field has already been field calc'd to 0, but when I select a point the z geometry is still populated with an integer > 0. I ...
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Finding the nearest line from point and writing the line’s end-vertex names into the point’s attributes in QGIS Field Calculator [closed]
I’m working in QGIS with three layers: lines (LINESTRING) test (POINT) — contains the point test1 vertices (POINT) — stores the line vertices, each with a name/ID field For each point in test (e.g., ...
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Orientation of rectangular symbol on point layer, following line from another layer in QGIS
I have a rectangular custom shape on a point layer. I want this shape to rotate automatically to the orientation of the line of another layer it is intersecting with. The long sides of the rectangle ...
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Upgraded QGIS, need point tool to behave like previous one
I recently upgraded QGIS from 3.08 to 3.40. Im doing a job that requires me to use the point edit tool to move the vertexes of polygons from a layer to points from another, thats like half of my ...
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Points of shp-layer not visible when added to QGIS Project [closed]
I've got a .dbf, a .shp and a shx. file of a point layer. The Points are set in the ETRS89/utm32 coordinate system. I've added the layer as shp layer in a project with the coordinate system WGS84 ...
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QGIS crashes while reading point geometry from Oracle
I would like to read point geometry stored in an Oracle database as a point with a rotation value. I create a table and add a point like this: CREATE TABLE points_with_rotation ( id integer, ...
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Drawing nearest line between two points of different layers and following existing line feature in QGIS
In QGIS I am currently very confused about drawing nearest line between two points of different layers while following existing line layer, for example following streets. I wanted to match around 1000-...
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Drawing nearest line between two points without crossing other lines in QGIS
In QGIS I want to draw the shortest line between 2 points (in this case a line between the circle point and the triangle point). However, the shortest line created between two points cannot cross the &...
2 votes
1 answer
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QGIS 3.22.16, Add one letter and row number in column
I am using QGIS 3.22.16. I try to add an ID column that will contain the letter C plus row number. I open the field calculator and type: 'C'@row_number. Unfortunately, it does not work. I wonder what ...
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Calculating fixed distance with service area from layer in QGIS
I am trying to classify the riparian vegetation around different streams from which fish were sampled from. To do this, I have been using the service area from the layer to calculate 1km of stream ...
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Triangulation of animal based on listening points in QGIS
I need to triangulate the position of different animals using QGIS. The data were collected through a protocol based on several listening points distributed in the field. My goal is to create a map ...
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Making XYZ Point more neater in QGIS
So I have these sounding point for my bathymetry map. As you can see, the number are clustered around the map, is there anyway can I make it more Neat by showing less number then make it straight and ...
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Simple way to display only some points based on a single data field in QGIS
I have a layer with ~1000 points. These are observations of 40 species ("species" is one of the data fields, along with other important information that I am displaying in a tooltip right ...
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Automatically plotting polygon from outer side of XYZ Point in QGIS
I want to create a boundary or a polygon from these XYZ points by selecting only the outermost points that form the boundary. I know these can be done in manually but I wanted to know how to do this ...