Questions tagged [buffer]
A region enclosing a point, line, or polygon at a specified distance.
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Creating a buffer with less than 1 centimeter using a polyline
Using ArcPy, I aim to create the smallest possible buffer, ideally just 1 millimeter. I have a code, but it only functions properly when I set the buffer parameters to a value of 2 centimeters or more....
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Creating buffer region using ArcMap
I'm trying to exclude a distance of 2km from several built-up area/settlements as an exclusion area.
A little background, I extracted the built-up area from a land use cover map and converted it to ...
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Create road edge network (footpath) using existing road centerlines including junction lines
Currently I have roadcenterline data at hand. On my project, I need to digitize the road edges and importantly the junction lines in intersections and T-Junctions. See image below. (Desired output)
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Exclude areas with building from a map
In ArcMap, I'm trying to create a site suitability map for a solar farm but I have issues with the building footprint file. I'd like to exclude areas with buildings but I have no idea how to go about ...
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Buffer output issue QGIS
I'm using QGIS 3.18 version. I tried to use the buffer tool with the centerline (provided for a sample) of the road.
I found overlapping of buffer polygons and some unusual shapes of polygons too. I ...
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Calculate length lines within point buffer
I have more than 184000 clients. I made a point buffer layer for all of them.
Also, I have a line layer of roads.
I want to calculate the length of lines (roads) within each buffer with a notebook and ...
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Changing turf.js buffered polygon corners to sharp corners in Leaflet?
I'm using Turf JS to make a polygon bigger with 10 meters:
var buffered = turf.buffer(polyGeoJSON, 10, { units: 'meters' });
and after, I'm adding it to the map
var outerBuff = L.geoJSON(buffered , {
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PostGIS Multi-Ring Buffers Around Lines
I would like to create a multi-ring buffer around a stream network and add a default floating value to each each buffer ring. I currently have the following SQL query:
CREATE TABLE public....
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Creating multiringbuffer with flat ends using QGIS
In the QGIS-Buffer, you have the option to chose the flat end, by specifying it in the 'End cap style' as you can see in the image:
However, in the MultiRingBuffer tool it seems as if there is no ...
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Buffer accuracy in virtual layer differs from accuracy in PostGIS view
I used virtual layer query to create a buffer for a point as this allowed me to transform its SRID using the PostGIS function ST_Transform, which is not possible with the ready-to-use Buffer algorithm ...
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How to make buffers based off of Manhattan Distance rather than Euclidean distance
I have buffers which need a 1.6 mile radius. However, I want them to be radii for walking distances rather than Euclidean distance to more accurately reflect the data I'm working with. Is this ...
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Single-sided buffer yielding artifacts in QGIS
Inside a graphical modeller with several other steps, I need to use single-sided buffers on two occasions: once to shrink polygon outputs by 10m (right-side buffer, 10m) and once to identify ...
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Limiting Voronoi polygons with circles
Using the following:
Layer 1: Voronoi polygons
Layer 2: Circles buffer for each points, polygons
When I Cut/Intersect in QGIS, here is what I can get as results.
This is ALMOST what I want.
The ...
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Dissolve buffers if the intersection/overlap is greater than 50%
I am trying to create a buffer of 5km radius around my points. I am able to build those. Now I want that the two overlapping buffers to dissolve if the intersection/overlap of those shapes is greater ...
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Custom Shapely Cap style
I am currently using shapely and geopandas to parse through a shapefile containing lines to build a rail network.
I am using shapely to create a buffer to identify sections of track that cannot be ...
