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Plover QGIS 4 compatibility
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Yes — Plover supports QGIS 4 (declared max version 4.99.0).
Boundary-aware Traveling Salesperson routing: shortest tour through your points, around your sloughs.
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Plover generates an optimized TSP (Traveling Salesperson) route through a point layer, optionally constrained to stay within a polygon boundary and to route around interior rings (holes / sloughs / exclusion zones). Without a boundary it solves a plain straight-line Euclidean TSP. It builds a visibility graph over the points and the boundary's concave corners, computes obstacle-aware shortest paths between all points, and optimizes the visiting order with multi-start nearest-neighbour, 2-opt and Or-opt. Includes a dialog with live progress (runs in the background, cancellable), a numbered visit-order output layer, GPX/KML export for field navigation, and a Processing algorithm for use in models and batch runs.
| Author | Zachary Komarnisky |
|---|---|
| Downloads | 391 |
| Latest version | 3.2.5 |
| Last updated | 2026-06-12 (125 days ago) |
| Min QGIS | 3.22.0 |
| Max QGIS | 4.99.0 |
| QGIS 4 ready | Yes |
| Maintenance | Active |
| Categories | Network & routing, Field data & mobile |
| Tags | vector, routing, processing, path planning, visibility graph, field work, optimization, tsp, agriculture |
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