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I'm looking for a way to merge polygons across the empty space between them with a Voronoi-type result. There is a very similar question here, but the approaches outlined in the comments did not produce the result I wanted (it created too many extra polygons, and all were very jagged). So, I did it manually as you can see below. I'd like to know a way to do this non-manually as I have even more complicated polygons that need this treatment.

What I have (before merge): before merge

What I want (after merge): after merge

Edit: There's a buffering question here that may be useful to me so long as I clip the resulting buffer's world extent, but so far it has no answer. Also in my case whenever I try buffering this shapefile, the rectangular ocean boundaries wind up getting buffered as well.

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  • if you can get the land as polygons (rather than gaps) then this .might be a job for skeletonisation e.g. v.voronoi with -s option..? Not tried this though – Steven Kay May 17 '17 at 20:24
  • How would you do that while keeping the marine rectangles? I've never done skeletonization – srha May 17 '17 at 21:18
  • Would you accept a raster based solution? I'm curious if a euclidean allocation type process in qgis or grass gis would work... The results from the raster process could be converted back to polygons. – SaultDon May 18 '17 at 03:27
  • @SaultDon totally! This is mostly for display purposes so as long as this raster-based solution preserves the rectangular borders within the ocean, it should work. – srha May 18 '17 at 17:01

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