"XY to lines" between the points of a layer fails about qgis-shapetools-plugin

[hamiltoncj]

@kannes You used the layer geometry for both the start and end of the line. That does not work. You need a beginning and ending point that is not the same point. You need to specify either the beginning or ending or both coordinates from attributes in the table. ne_50m_populated_places.shp does not have such attributes.

I should probably check for this condition and return a clearer error message that the beginning and ending points cannot be the same.

[kannes]

Ah, so I cannot use this to make lines between all point pairs of a point layer?

[hamiltoncj]

@kannes No it is not for making lines between different point features in a layer. Each feature must include the beginning and ending points. What is the use case for making lines between all point pairs? I don't know if there is an existing capability in QGIS to do that or not.

[hamiltoncj]

@kannes I improved the error messages for the XY to Lines tool. I am interested in why you need an algorithm that draws lines between each point. It wouldn't be hard to implement an algorithm like that, but I don't know what the need for it would be.

[hamiltoncj]

@kannes Was there anything else you needed with this ticket if not I will go ahead and close it. I added error messages so the user knows not to use the layer geometry for both the beginning and ending points.

[kannes]

Thanks! The motivation was about imaginary flight routes between imaginary airports.