[Qgis-user] Measure distance along line

[Ujaval Gandhi]

The closest I can think of is to use the 'Shortest path (point-to-point)'
tool from the Processing Toolbox. It will allow you to select 2 points on
your line layer and give you an output line with the distance along the
line as an attribute/
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On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 5:23 PM Prud'homme Jérémie <p.jeremie at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am wondering if it's possible to use the Measure distance tool to
> measure the distance between two places, following a line.
>
> For example, I click on a first place on the line, I click on a second
> place and the tool automagically follow the line.
> Same behavior as what we can do with the use of automatic tracing for
> geaometrie creations.
>
> BR,
> Jérémie.
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