Perform Spatial Operations

The Edition extension offers two types of spatial operations: geoprocessing and spatial tools.

Geoprocessing concerns the set or a selection of the elements of the involved layers and their result is a set of new geometries added to the Annotations layer.

The operations performed by the Spatial Tools concern the elements selected beforehand and their result is one or more new geometries that are added to the Annotations layer.

The layers attributes are not retained in the results (the Annotations layer has no attributes).

The elements resulting from the operations can be selected and copied into other layers using the Edition tools and the context menu.

When you perform spatial operations on editable layers, you can hold down the CTRL key to retain only the result of the operation, that is, by automatically deleting the editable elements that were selected.