Feature request #12109

Difference from 2 polygon in the same layer

Added by Luca Lanteri about 9 years ago. Updated almost 7 years ago.

Status:Feedback
Priority:Normal
Assignee:-
Category:Digitising
Pull Request or Patch supplied:No Resolution:
Easy fix?:No Copied to github as #:20303

Description

Add the possibility to perform a difference operation from two polygons that stay in the same layer, with a similar behavior of the merge tools.

History

#1 Updated by Filipe Dias about 9 years ago

  • Category set to Processing/GDAL

Can you provide a postgis or spatialite query that does what you want? It would help developers understand your request better. It might be possible to create an ogr2ogr tool that does that.

#2 Updated by Giovanni Manghi about 9 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Feedback
  • Category changed from Processing/GDAL to Digitising

I don't think that this refers to the geoprocessing operation, as it is already possible to choose the same input layer for a difference operation.

I thin that this refers to the advanced editing toolbar, where the user could choose two polgyons and using them for a difference operation, as it is said, in a similar way as the "merge selected features" tools work. It is not exactly a digitizing operation, but also the "merge selected features" is not.

Am I right?

PS
doing spatial operations that involve more than 1 input, with ogr2ogr in processing, will be possible when the support for multiple inputs (using virtual vectors) will be added.

#3 Updated by Luca Lanteri about 9 years ago

Yes, you're right, it is advanced editing operation. With two partially overlapping poligon A and B I could perform a subtract operation from A to B or from B to A.
Thanks

#4 Updated by Regis Haubourg over 8 years ago

Hi More generally I have users askling for interactive tools inside the edited layer with classical intersect / buffer / difference tools. We had this in Mapinfo, and that allows a faster editing workflow. That need to introduce a concept of target feature(s) and source objects.
Created a dedicated feature request here #13050

#5 Updated by Luca Lanteri over 8 years ago

Clipper plugin does the work. Could it be a good thing to add it to advanced editing bar?

#6 Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 7 years ago

  • Easy fix? set to No

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