For a landscape analysis study, I want to extract some categorical data along a line (purple in the image) on the selected area. Before I continue to create an entire plugin to create a categorical "profile", maybe it has already been done. I will explain the situation below.
Along this line I can already obtain a height profile (via elevation profile or profile tool), but would like to add "profiles" of categorical data (from a vector-layer with polygons), as horizontal bars below the height profile.
In order to produce these bars, I already took steps to find the positions of intersections for a vector layer using Vector -> Geometry Tools -> Polygons to Lines followed by Vector -> Analysis Tools -> Line Intersections. It would then be possible to write some code to determine which polygon/category is covered in which part of the profile, but maybe someone has already done this.
Before I continue to create an entire plugin to make these charts:
- What would you name such a categorical "profile"?
- Is a plugin for creating these already available?
