Saturday, 21 May 2016

masking - Considering holes/constraints in Voronoi polygon creation in QGIS?


I am trying to create voronoi polygons in QGIS that would consider "holes" in the general domain. An example would be:


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I actually created the Voronois in this image using QGIS through the GRASS command, then using the "Difference" tool to create the holes. A separate polygon shapefile, which contains the extents of the holes, was used as the "Difference" layer. An example application would be creating polygons around sampling points that were collected between structures that should be excluded from the analysis.


Two problems arise here:





  1. The "difference" function does not appear to work 100% properly, with some polygon boundaries extending into the "holes". This can be fixed by finding row in the Attribute Table which do not have a polygon ID number (or ID of "0").




  2. This type of after-the-fact "hole-punching" can result in discontinuous polygons, as shown by the red arrow in the image.




My question is: is there a Voronoi tool or plugin that can consider the presence of "holes" in the center of the domain, as a one-step process, and also eliminate the generation of discontinuous polygons? I envision that such a tool would extend a polygon boundary to the nearest intersection with another boundary, unless that other boundary slams against a "hole" boundary first.




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