I'm currently working on a project involving rivers, generated using Derive Stream As Line ().The output has each segment of each river separated at each intersection. I'm now doing the work of assigning them attributes, namely their names.
Note: What I'm looking for here would also be great for like, roads, or even polygons.
What I'd like at the end of this is to be able to treat the entire river (all 100+ segments) as one feature for things like labelling. You can do it already with symbology if you just symbolize by attribute (or expression), but for labelling, it doesn't work.
Now, of course I could always merge or dissolve the features manually, but then I have an extra file that only exists for the purpose of labelling, and would have to be updated if something in the original file changed. This is not really ideal.
And this is not just for labelling-- It'd be cool if you could treat each one of the aggregated features as its own thing for like, getting the measurements and something. Sure, you can always do summary statistics or the data engineering pane, but wouldn't it be cool if you could turn on the aggregation, then when you Identified it or measured it, it gave you information about all of them together?
I looked into doing something similar for trails back at an old job. We needed the individual segments for reporting purposes, but we needed to also be able to just put the entire thing on a map for general use. If we'd had this functionality, it would have been a lot more easy.
