[Qgis-user] Linear referencing in QGIS

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 07/09/2016 14:24, Neumann, Andreas ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> A friend of mine asked me if QGIS can do linear referencing - e.g.
> symbolizing road data speed limits along a road, lets say from km 0 to
> 0.76 there is a limit of 50 km/h, from 0.76 to 1.23 there is 80 km/h
> limit, etc.
> 
> The idea is to symbolize these road segments without having to actually
> split the data into bits. And hopefully without having to generate
> derived tables that have no link to the original data.
> 
> Is QGIS able to do this, perhaps with a plugin?

Yes:
http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/lrs/
Best if using PostGIS though.
All the best.
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