[GIS] How to divide a single polyline feature into multiple features based on points located on it

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I have a shapefile that contains the bus route information for a city.

I want to do two things…

  1. Merge all the existing rows so that just one feature represents all the routes…

  2. I have a Points shapefile that overlays this polyline shapefile, I want to break the single polyline shapefile into multiple polylines based on these point locations

i.e. output will be many points each connected by individual shapefiles, preferably I would like each new shapefile to contain information regarding the points it connects.

Can someone suggest a solution preferably in QGIS but ArcGIS works too

Best Answer

In QGIS

1) put the vector in editing mode, select all the features and in the editing toolbar use the "merge features" tool

2) the dynamic segmentation plugin should do the trick

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