polygon

Whatever is your geo-thing, you may have come across a Polygon which needed to be split in half, three parts, five parts (a hundred parts?). Possible applications of the split polygons are performing zonal statistics and terrain parceling (agriculture).

First, I will create a purposefully invalid geometry to apply the fix. Then, I will show you two ways to fix it. In one of them, I simply apply the “Fix geometries” native tool of QGIS. The second option I will show here is using the buffer tool. In this simple trick, I will show you how to create an infinitesimal buffer around my broken geometry, which ends up fixing it, but has its perks as well.