[Qgis-user] Split Feature (Line) creates many segments

[Richard Greenwood]

What coordinate system are you in? Are the length calculations ellipsoidal
or Cartesian? What sort of lengths are you dealing with and what's the
magnitude of the difference between the two calculations?

On Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 1:31 AM Springfield Harrison via QGIS-User <
qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a long flight line which crosses itself many times.  I want to
> trim the ends.  The Split Featured tool works as intended but the line
> is broken into many segments between the intersections. This I can cope
> with.
>
> What also happens is that the total line length increases. Visually the
> segmented line looks identical to the original but the total length of
> all the segments is greater than that of the original, in some cases.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated, the line segment length must not be
> altered…
>
> --------
> Cheers, Spring
>
>
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