[Qgis-user] Measure distance along line

[Prud'homme Jérémie]

Hi,

Thanks, I didn't thought about this tool but it can do the job.
Having the ability to follow the line in the measure tool would be simpler
for QGIS beginners, though.

BR,
Jérémie.

Le jeu. 29 avr. 2021 à 14:03, Ujaval Gandhi <ujaval at spatialthoughts.com> a
écrit :

> 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:
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>> 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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