Questions tagged [parallel-lines]
In geometry, parallel lines are lines in a plane which do not meet; that is, two lines in a plane that do not intersect or touch at any point are said to be parallel.
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Generating line parallel to polyline scheme using ArcGIS Pro
I am working on a forest edge map. What I currently have is a polyline that describe each forest patch (each segment is different based on its exposition) and a soil map (soil map underneath). I ...
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How to visualizing lines along a mutual segment in parallel in QGIS?
I'm trying to create a similar visualization to this (from Google Maps) in QGIS: The aim is to visualize each (train) line separately despite them following the exact same route in reality. Ideally, ...
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Cleaning parallel lines in QGIS
I'm using QGIS 3.22.0. I downloaded the OSM Railway Line-Shape, however, some lines are parallel. I would like to "clean" the layer and only have one line per achse displayed (and in railway ...
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Add parallel lines inside an irregular polygon QGIS 3.22 [closed]
I am using QGIS 3.22.10 My end goal is to know the distance a tractor will travel all up when it is seeding an area (the irregular polygon) at 1m distance (single line seeding). Is there an option to ...
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Delete parallel lines to calculate total network length [closed]
I have problem with parallel lines in QGIS. I want to delete lines, which have common courses with others (expample of lines is in the picture below) . Context: The lines are network-lines and to ...
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Offset lines to find self intersection lines
I've been trying, with no success, to create of negative offset from line shapefiles (contour lines, actually). My objective is, with the x offset I define, to use the topology rules to identify the ...
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Creating line that passes a point
I am going to draw a polygon around each crosswalk in a city. The problem is that I have a point in the middle of each crosswalk but I need to have a line so that I can make a buffer around it to ...
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Measuring distance between wavey lines/points in QGIS
In I want to design meandering lines on a plot at 5m distance apart. I am using the circular string tool so it's all by hand, ideally, they would be identical lines with a consistent 5m distance. How ...
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Finding the distance between two lines in QGIS
I want to find two lines which are very close to each other within the same layer (spatially). See the image below where there are two lines which are very close (distance of ~18 cm). I wanted to find ...
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Connecting unconnected multiple vertical Lines in QGIS
So I have these multiple vertical lines as shown below. So what I am aiming for is to connecting these unconnected lines into one lines automatically. What I've been done so far is to connected it ...
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Drawing rows in field at the same distance from each other
I have to recreate on QGIS what you can see in the picture below. I have to draw those lines (tree lines) in my field. The rows need to be at exactly 10m far from each other and oriented North-South. ...
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Remove all but one lines in cluster of parallel lines
I just want one line that represents the centroid of a bunch of parallel lines, which one in each bunch doesn't matter. I've already tried doing a dissolve operation to make one thick line that ...
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Parallel lines not showing on my map document (QGIS; v.parallel function)
Weird issue: I am trying to use v.parallel to draw a line parallel to a single line layer I have. It processes without issue, but the parallel line does not appear on the map. The curious thing is ...
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How to make a Heat Map of Distance between a set of parallel lines in QGIS?
How to make a Heat Map of Distance between a set of parallel lines in QGIS? This question is an extension of Question posted on the following link: Distance between multiple parallel lines? I have a ...
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Calculating buffer distance for different groups of parallel lines in QGIS
I have a number of parallel lines (see here for the background: How to extend lines to Bounding Box in QGIS?). My final aim is to create the Centerline for each group of lines as illustrated here: ...
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