Hi Gerhardus,
as I experience similar questions at my work, too, I would like to make
some statements in order to (hopefully) clarify things for you:
GIS is about modelling spatial data. QGIS as any other GIS-desktop
software enables you to create maps that show your data. If you need a
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Hi
Many thanks for all the answers! I am doing a line and a polygon for my map.
Best Regards
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Anita Graser wrote:
> Hi Gerhardus,
>
> The common approach I saw most of the time is to have a polygon layer that
> traces the form of the river banks and a line layer
Hi Gerhardus,
The common approach I saw most of the time is to have a polygon layer that
traces the form of the river banks and a line layer that contains the river
center line and can be used to calculate distances easily.
Best wishes,
Anita
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Gerhardus Geldenhui
Hi
This question is not as much QGIS specific but more about generic GIS
concepts.
In all of the tutorials I have watched so far rivers is represented as
lines. This makes sense and if you were to do later analysis I would imagine
a line would make it easier to get information like the length of a
