SPM Desktop > Features > Geometry tools > Polygon tools

Polygon tools

New in V10

A set of polygon tools designed to simplify and enhance your spatial editing tasks. Generating polygons from point sets, merging adjacent polygons, or creating polygons from intersecting lines.

Editions: Professional
What's included in the feature Polygon tools

Discover the full potential of this set of tools designed to enhance GIS data integration and editing within .

Points to Polygon

Creates closed polygon geometries by connecting individual points in sequence. This tool is particularly useful when reconstructing area features from boundary points, such as land plots or enclosures. Points can be grouped by a specified data field, enabling the generation of multiple polygons based on categorized point sets.

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Polygon Union

Combines overlapping or adjacent polygons into a single, unified geometry. This tool simplifies complex datasets by removing internal boundaries and merging connected areas. It is essential for consolidating features such as land parcels, administrative zones, or habitat regions, ensuring cleaner and more efficient spatial data.

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Polygonize

Automatically detects intersections between line geometries and generates polygons from the resulting closed shapes. This tool is ideal for transforming networks of lines—such as cadastral boundaries or urban layouts—into usable polygon features.

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Related features
Polyline tools<span style='font-size: 1rem;'> - <a href='../polyline-tools/' class='app_color_link'>More info ></a></span>

Polyline tools

 New in V10

A powerful set of tools for editing and transforming polylines. Whether you need to compound new lines from anothers, reduce complexity using simplification, or create new linear geometries from points, these tools will help your workflow.

Geometry editing tools<span style='font-size: 1rem;'> - <a href='../geometry-editing-tools/' class='app_color_link'>More info ></a></span>

Geometry editing tools

 New in V10

A wide range of functions to edit, reshape, and analyze spatial geometries. Tools such as Convex Hull, Envelope, or Triangulation. Additional capabilities like Simplify reduce complexity in shapes or Vertex extraction are available.

frequently asked questions
  • Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7 SP1, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and higher
  • 1024 x 768 VGA graphics, or higher
  • 1 GHZ 32-bit or 64-bit processor, or faster
  • 1 GB RAM or more (4GB recommended)
  • 2 GB free disk space, or more
  • Microsoft .NET 4.5 (installer included)
  • Windows Installer 3.1 or later
Spatial files
  • Esri Shape file - (SHP)
  • Google Earth file - (KML, KMZ)
  • OpenStreetMap file - (OSM, PBF, OSC) (1)
  • LiDAR file - (LAS, LAZ)
  • GPS exchange format file - (GPX)
  • Esri ASCII Grid file - (ASC, ASCII) (1)
  • ASCII text file - (ASC, CSV, NEZ, TXT, XYZ, UPT)
  • SQLite file - (SQLITE, DB)
  • GeoPackage file - (GPKG)
  • GML file - (GML, GZ, XML)
  • Autodesk SDF file - (SDF) (3)
  • MicroStation v.7 file - (DGN) (2)
  • AutoCAD DXF file - (DXF) (2)
  • Esri ArcInfo export file (ASCII) - (E00) (1) (2)
  • MapInfo file - (TAB) (2)
  • MapInfo interchange format file - (MIF/MID) (2)
  • GeoJSON file - (GEO.JSON)

Spatial raster files
  • Variable resolution Raster image file - (Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF/COG TIFF) (1) (4)

Spatial data servers and Geo-databases
  • Esri Geodatabase File - (GDB) (1)
  • PostGIS database
  • Microsoft SQL Server Spatial database
  • MySQL database (1) (3)

Image map servers
  • WMS/OGC API Maps Web Map Services (4)
  • WMTS/OGC API Tiles Web Map Tile Services (4)
  • XYZ/TMS Tile Map Services (4)

Other spatial data sources
  • Open Database Connectivity ODBC (1)
  • WFS/OGC API Features data store (1)
  • WFS data store (FDO) (1) (3) (5)
  • WFS data store (OGR) (1) (2) (5)

(1) Read-only
(2) OGR data source
(3) FDO provider
(4) Background Maps technology
(5) DEPRECATED - Whenever possible use the native WFS/OGC API Features data provider

Note: certain data Providers are only valid for some Editions of the application
  • Spatial Manager applications are updated and released every 3 or 4 months