Thursday, 11 February 2016

proximity - What QGIS tool or plugin is equivalent to the ESRI "Near" tool?


Using QGIS 2.10.1 I need to determine the distance from each feature in layer A to its nearest feature in layer(s) B or C or...


ESRI has this capability with their "Near" tool:


http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#//00080000001q000000


Is there a QGIS equivalent?


I have



  • a point layer of 1269 boreholes


  • stream lines

  • lake polygons


I need to know, for each borehole, the single nearest distance to water (either stream or lake). In addition, I need to know whether that nearest water is stream or lake.


After completing the analysis, I envision the point layer's attribute table would contain 3 new fields:



  1. the nearest distance to water

  2. the layer (stream or lake) responsible for the nearest distance, and

  3. the stream or lake feature ID responsible for the nearest distance.





No comments:

Post a Comment

arcpy - Changing output name when exporting data driven pages to JPG?

Is there a way to save the output JPG, changing the output file name to the page name, instead of page number? I mean changing the script fo...