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Mastering Geospatial Development with QGIS 3.x - Third Edition
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Mastering Geospatial Development with QGIS 3.x - Third Edition

by Shammunul Islam, Simon Miles, Kurt Menke, GISP, Richard Smith Jr., GISP, Luigi Pirelli, John Van Hoesen, GISP
March 2019
Beginner to intermediate
466 pages
11h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using the Clip and Difference tools

These two tools are related in that they are the inverse of each other. Data often extends beyond the bounds of your study area. In this situation, you can use the Clip tool to limit the data to the extent of your study area. It is often described as a cookie cutter. It takes an input vector layer and uses a second layer as the clip layer to produce a new dataset that is clipped to the extent of the clip layer. The Difference tool takes the same input, but outputs the input features that do not intersect with the clip layer.

Go to Vector | Geoprocessing Tools | Clip:

In the Clip window, set the Input layer ...

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