6 - QGIS 3.2 Tutorial - Buffer and Intersect

by Konrad M. Lawson (@kmlawson) for the Institute for Transnational & Spatial History (spatialhistory.net), University of St Andrews.


In this tutorial I demonstrate a simple buffer and then an intersect between a point layer and a buffer. The hypothetical example task is locating all communities within 3km of a train station.

The layers used here are from:

https://www.naturalearthdata.com/
Downloads - Large Scale Data 1:10m -
Physical - Coastlines

National Public Transport Access Nodes (NaPTAN)
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/ff93ffc1-...
Download as Zipped CSV format (29MB)

National Records of Scotland - Settlements 2016 Centroids
https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files//...