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ksan048
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8 years ago

Map with lines (linestring type)

Hi all,   I have a shapefile that contains linestring types which shows a road network and I would like to use this to show the traffic volume along the different roads. However, it seems that Powe...
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some1else
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5 years ago

I did solve this. Converted the SHP file to CSV -> WKT using QGIS. This resulted in multiple lines of the coordinates I needed. So it was just a matter of transposing in Excel the lines I had that matched the category I supplied. Final look is like this: LINESTRING(coor1 coor2, coor3 coor4, etc)

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    apelleti
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    3 years ago

    What do you select in location type when using the format  LINESTRING(coor1 coor2, coor3 coor4, etc)? I tried this format and the map is still showing up blank.

     

    Thank you!