Monday 19 August 2019

Draw a polygon with specified edge length in QGIS Madeira


I am looking for a possibiliy to draw a polygon with specified edge length in QGIS Madeira. I already checked further Threads belonging to this question, but all answers refer to PlugIns which are not correspondig with the current GIS Version.



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If I understand you correctly


1) Create a center point;


2) Run the



Data Analysis>Vector geometry> Rectangles, ovals, rhombuses (fixed),


see figure 1.


enter image description here If you are working in a flat rectangular coordinate system, set the dimensions in meters, if in degrees in the above values, i.e. 1 g = 111 200 m or 0.001 = 111.12 m;


In the test example, I set the values ​​in the above meters 111.2 x 22 meters (in length and width), You can also create the rotation you want, etc.


see Figure 2 enter image description here


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