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17 questions linked to/from Filling holes in polygons using QGIS
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QGIS Dissolving and holes [duplicate]
I am using QGIS 2.18.9 and I have a problem. I dissolved a small map with about 1000 small regions into one big polygon, with Vector->geoprocessing tools->dissolve. But after the dissolving ...
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Holes between polygons after dissolve [duplicate]
I’ve got a shapefile of Switzerland. Shown Polygons are 6-digit ZipCodes. Whenever I dissolve the file for example by 4-digit ZipCodes, it results in incorrect polygons. Unfortunately some polygons ...
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Polygons hull QGIS [duplicate]
I'm currently working with old french cadastre on QGIS, I've vectorised it and now I want to tile it. I've georeferenced it, but it's not sufficient for a great result. To improve the result, I would ...
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Removing lines within polygon in QGIS [duplicate]
In the image of a single layer (below), how would I delete the lines in the left-hand polygon? Perhaps an eraser tool would be a good addition to QGIS.
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Shapely polygon union results in strange artifacts of tiny, non-overlapping areas
I am not sure if this is a shapely bug or a problem with my polygons. I have a bunch of polygons that look like this: They are level-12 watersheds provided by HydroBasins, and are presumably non-...
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Auto-complete polygon in QGIS
I am missing auto-complete in QGIS. From other answers I understand that you need to snap around the hole and you can't just let QGIS fill the hole, is that correct? It's bothersome when it's a lot of ...
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Align polygon boundaries with another boundary in QGIS 3?
I am working on vegetation community classification for a project and using QGIS3. This is completed by collecting field-plot data and then using aerial imagery to delineate the approximate boundaries ...
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Fixing holes in the buffered polygon using PyQGIS
My script uses a buffer and dissolves to create polygons around my points. However, there are holes in between the points. I do not want to increase the distance because then it will also cover the ...
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How to join several inner and outer lines that share the same field in a single polygon?
I have a data source with thousands of lakes, ponds and small puddles. Using an algorithm of anitagraser.com I have managed to clean the ponds and small puddles, but with the big lakes I have a ...
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Error while removing gaps with v.clean in QGIS
I have a polygon layer (Geopackage with 378 features in EPSG:3857) with many very small gaps between them (topology checker lists more than 5000). The gaps are in a range of several hundred meters to ...
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How to avoid slivers when merging (union) two shapefiles in QGIS?
Here's the kind of tool I want: Preference A: Union the two polygon shapefiles that where the wetland file takes precedence over the forest file when the distance between the edges is less than 20m. ...
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Dissolve polygons with road network gaps
I am using QGIS and have a shapefile of the blocks in a large city, where each polygon is a particular streetblock. The city is divided into various sectors, and each block has information on its ...
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Connect outline gaps at vector shape
Could someone shed some light into a method to link breaking outline borders without much distortion from the original like e.g. convex hull does? Convex hull alternative ideas are of course welcome ...
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Empty pixels in polygon border
I have a vector shape file with the basins of South Carolina. Some of the sub-basins polygons have a "hole" or no data pixel in their boundary (See photos for reference 2) and I need them to ...
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Fill holes in polygon that does not connect with surroundings
I have created a vectorization from a raster of a sea model of Denmark as suggested here https://gis.stackexchange.com/a/478370/240539 using QGIS. I get this vectorization: I wish to fill the holes in ...