The QGIS Polygon Divider: Polygon partition into an irregular equal area grid

Jonathan Huck

Environment and Planning B, 2026, vol. 53, issue 3, 507-515

Abstract: The QGIS ‘Polygon Divider’ plugin solves the problem of partitioning an arbitrarily complex polygon into an irregular grid of equal area rectangles, which has a range of applications for city science and GIS more broadly. This is achieved by the iterative partition of the polygon using cutlines that are located using Brent’s method, which is an efficient optimisation algorithm. At the time of release, this was the only tool with such functionality in a major GIS platform, though the functionality has since been replicated.

Keywords: GIScience (geographical information science); spatial data; spatial representation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.1177/23998083251378340

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