3.2.5. Point inside polygon coordinates

Calculate coorinates of a point guaranteed to be inside a polygon and add the calculated coordinates to point_X, point_Y attributes. PointOnSurface method.

Inputs:

  • Polygon vector layer in one of the formats, supported by GDAL, e.g. Shapefile in ZIP-archive, GeoJSON, GeoPackage.

Outputs:

  • ZIP with polygonal shapefile with two fields added: point_X, point_Y

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Pic. 3.6. Visualization of the calculated centroids

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Pic. 3.7. Resulting feature table of the layer with added attributes

Launch the tool: https://toolbox.nextgis.com/t/centroid2attr

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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