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Version: 6.5.0

lineSliceAlong

Description

Takes a line, a specified distance along the line to a start Point, and a specified distance along the line to a stop point and returns a subsection of the line in-between those points.

This can be useful for extracting only the part of a route between two distances.

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
lineFeature<LineString> | LineStringinput line
startDistnumberdistance along the line to starting point
stopDistnumberdistance along the line to ending point
options?ObjectOptional parameters (default {})
options.units?stringcan be degrees, radians, miles, or kilometers (default 'kilometers')

Returns

Examples

var line = turf.lineString([
[7, 45],
[9, 45],
[14, 40],
[14, 41],
]);
var start = 12.5;
var stop = 25;
var sliced = turf.lineSliceAlong(line, start, stop, { units: "miles" });

Installation

$ npm install @turf/line-slice-along

import { lineSliceAlong } from "@turf/line-slice-along";
const result = lineSliceAlong(...);
$ npm install @turf/turf

import * as turf from "@turf/turf";
const result = turf.lineSliceAlong(...);