Central lines of polygons#

This instrument creates centerlines for polygons. It is helpful for transforming roads or rivers digitized as polygons into lines.

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Fig. 117. Input polygon layer and resulting line layer#

Inputs:

  • Polygon vector layer in a GDAL-supported format, e.g. GeoPackage, GeoJSON, MapInfo TAB, ESRI Shapefile (the latter two should be in ZIP archive).

Outputs:

  • Line vector layer in GeoPackage.

Launch the tool: https://toolbox.nextgis.com/t/centerline

Try the tool in action

  1. Click on the Demo button above the tool form. The fields are filled in with demo values.

  2. Click on the Run button.

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