[Gvsig_english] Problem from polylines to polygons

Benjamin Ducke benjamin.ducke at oxfordarch.co.uk
Wed May 18 14:23:29 CEST 2011


I don't think you will be able to process this dataset
as polygons in GIS (any GIS, not just gvSIG). 
It violates GIS topology rules to have overlapping polygons
in one layer.

Cheers,

Ben

----- Original Message -----
> Hi everybody,
> I have just installed gvSIG because I need to convert a polyline
> feature (shape) into a polygons.
> I used the sexante tool but I didn't get what I expected.
> Basically I have an outer boundary (rectangle) and inside I have some
> ellipses and other polylines connecting on side of the boundary to
> another. It seems to me that the outer boundary is not recognized as a
> polyline. Indeed the polylines connecting two edges of the outer
> boundary are closed
> automatically after the conversion.
> 
> Can anybody help me on that?
> 
> 
> This is the original image:
> http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/file/n6377472/original_polylines.jpg
> 
> 
> This is what I obtained after converting polylines into polygons with
> Sextante
> http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/file/n6377472/converted_polygons.jpg
> 
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