[Qgis-user] polygon direction/orientation

[Carson Farmer]

Perhaps you could elaborate a bit more here? How do you define the azimuth
of a complex shape? Say I have a rectangle like this [], what is the
azimuth?
An example might help?

Carson

On 13 October 2010 17:08, simogeo <simon.georget at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to know if there is a plugin to calculate a polygon orientation.
> Basically, if I have a basic rectangle (or even better a complex shape), I
> want to know his azimuth
>
> I ve seen the "azimuth and distance" plugin ... but i don't really
> understand how it works and I'm even not sure it does that job. Any idea ?
>
> Many thanks,
> simo
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Carson J. Q. Farmer
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National Centre for Geocomputation
National University of Ireland, Maynooth,
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