Friday 28 July 2017

qgis - Draw rectangle with a given size (height/length) from attribute table


I would like to build a rectangle (shape or symbol) with a given size (height/length) from the attribute-table.


In detail: I build a Atlas of maps with alternating sizes, like 145x129 or 165x129. The size of every feature is written in the attribute table of the coverage-layer. So far so good: every map got his own defined size using data defined override for map length and height.


attribute-table of the coverage layer


data defined override for map length and height in the Atlas-menu


But now I would like the bounding boxes of the atlas-maps to be shown as overlays on the map in my canvas. (Like you can do with the overlay-function in the print composer)


The best approach seemed to be to use the geometry-generator and build a polygon around the centroid of the feature. I already started a post months ago: Using QGIS Geometry Generator to get rectangle from point? With the result, that it is not possible because the "Geometry generator does not support calculations inside WKT". I still have that problem to solve. Do anyone know a other approach?



Answer




@iant was faster but this is my version with PostGIS.


This one works with points and fixed offsets "1" to each direction.


select ST_GeomFromText('POLYGON (('
||ST_X(the_geom)-1||' '||ST_Y(the_geom)-1||','
||ST_X(the_geom)-1||' '||ST_Y(the_geom)+1||','
||ST_X(the_geom)+1||' '||ST_Y(the_geom)+1||','
||ST_X(the_geom)+1||' '||ST_Y(the_geom)-1||','
||ST_X(the_geom)-1||' '||ST_Y(the_geom)-1||'))')
from my_points;


This is using centroids and work with any geometry type:


select ST_GeomFromText('POLYGON (('
||ST_X(ST_Centroid(the_geom))-1||' '||ST_Y(ST_Centroid(the_geom))-1||','
||ST_X(ST_Centroid(the_geom))-1||' '||ST_Y(ST_Centroid(the_geom))+1||','
||ST_X(ST_Centroid(the_geom))+1||' '||ST_Y(ST_Centroid(the_geom))+1||','
||ST_X(ST_Centroid(the_geom))+1||' '||ST_Y(ST_Centroid(the_geom))-1||','
||ST_X(ST_Centroid(the_geom))-1||' '||ST_Y(ST_Centroid(the_geom))-1||'))')
from my_polygons;

If your offsets are stored into attributes "offset_x" and "offset_y" use this:



select ST_GeomFromText('POLYGON (('
||ST_X(ST_Centroid(the_geom))-offset_x||' '||ST_Y(ST_Centroid(the_geom))-offset_y||','
||ST_X(ST_Centroid(the_geom))-offset_x||' '||ST_Y(ST_Centroid(the_geom))+offset_y||','
||ST_X(ST_Centroid(the_geom))+offset_x||' '||ST_Y(ST_Centroid(the_geom))+offset_y||','
||ST_X(ST_Centroid(the_geom))+offset_x||' '||ST_Y(ST_Centroid(the_geom))-offset_y||','
||ST_X(ST_Centroid(the_geom))-offset_x1||' '||ST_Y(ST_Centroid(the_geom))-offset_y||'))')
from my_polygons;

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