I have a road polyline layer (singlepart ie has several features per road, grouped by an id field), and i want to (after merging the parts) find the mid point of the resulting lines. This is for roads geolocation.
The problem is that the QGIS' dissolve function only works on polygons.
I've tried:
a) mmqgis plugin "create label layer" (handles multiparts nicely)
b) buffer road lines to 1m then dissolve by roadid, then ftools centroids
Both of which give a 'sort of' result, but the main problem is that the point is not actually on the road line. Is there a way to either force polygon centroids to be within the buffer polygon, or alternatively, some way to actually join the polylines and find mid points directly.
Note that while there are (a small number of) 'Y' shaped lines, most of the multipart lines start and end at the same place, (maybe gridifyed to 1cm).
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