✂️✅ How to Split and Merge Line Features in QGIS

🟡 Part 1: Split a Line Feature

Step 1: Enable Editing Mode

• Right-click on the line layer → Toggle Editing
  or click the ✏️ Pencil icon

Step 2: Use the Split Features Tool

1. Go to:

   Edit → Split Features
   or click the ✂️ Split Features tool from the toolbar.

2. Click to draw a cutting line across the line you want to split:

   • Click to start, click again to add vertices

   • Right-click to finish drawing the cut line

3. The original line is now split into two (or more) parts.

Step 3: Save Edits

• Click 💾 Save Layer Edits

🔗 Part 2: Merge (Join) Line Features

Step 1: Enable Editing Mode

• Same as above: Right-click → Toggle Editing

Step 2: Select the Lines to Merge

1. Use the Select Features tool to select two or more connected line features.

2. Selected lines should be touching or overlapping at endpoints.

Step 3: Use the Merge Selected Features Tool

1. Go to:

   Edit → Merge Selected Features
   or Right-click → Merge Features

2. A dialog will appear asking how to handle attribute fields.

   • Choose which values to keep or combine

   • Click OK

Step 4: Save and Exit Editing

• Click 💾 Save Layer Edits

• Click ✏️ Toggle Editing to stop editing.

✅ Notes:

• Split is useful for dividing roads, rivers, or pipelines at intersections or boundaries.

• Merge is best used when combining segments into one logical feature (e.g., a continuous road or path).