[Qgis-user] Digitizing points with azimuth and distance

[C Hamilton]

One last question. Do you initially want this for QGIS 2 or 3?

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 11:45 AM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
wrote:

> Il 05/03/2018 17:42, C Hamilton ha scritto:
> > There are two possible solutions.
> >
> > 1. Currently the Create Shapes, Line of bearing tool just creates a
> > geodesic line between two points. It would be real easy to have it
> > create a destination point on a separate layer. The input to this tool
> > is a point or table layer with the beginning and destination points or
> > the beginning point and then you use the default settings within the
> > dialog box for the azimuth and distance.
> >
> > 2. I think what you are asking is to start with a point layer in edit
> > mode. Click on the map, have a dialog box pop up, enter the distance and
> > azimuth, click on OK, and it adds the destination point to the selected
> > layer. Would this be a suitable solution?
>
> sounds a good solution
>
> > Would you also want to add the
> > begging point to the same layer? It could be optional with a check box.
>
> not useful in our case
>
> > Are geodesic distance calculations what you are looking for or simple
> > euclidean distances? Shape Tools works with geodesic distances similar
> > to Google Earth.
>
> we are working on short distances (hundreds of meters), so I guess the
> difference will be insignificant
>
> thanks again
>
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