[Qgis-user] Digitizing points with azimuth and distance

Nyall Dawson nyall.dawson at gmail.com
Mon Mar 5 15:36:24 PST 2018


On 5 March 2018 at 18:20, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I cannot recall an easy solution for this problem:
> * clicking on a point
> * adding azimuth an distance
> * automatically creating a point, in a second layer, at the distance and
> azimuth specified
> * repeat the procedure, adding more point to the same second layer.
> Anyone has a good solution to this?

Not sure if it helps - but 3.2 has an inbuilt "project points"
processing algorithm which allows you to shift the points from an
input layer by a given bearing and distance (also supports
data-defined/expression based bearing/distance values).

Nyall



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