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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello all,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have a newbie question for you guys…here goes :<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have a large dataset (a geonames world data-dump) that I’ve imported into Postgis.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I want to know how to do a Spatial Join with this dataset so that I can split the millions of points up into chunks by continent.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For example :<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A user connects to the database in QGIS and wants to select all of the cities (I’m going to trim the data down a little more using a query later on) and they want to bring in only the points that fall in Europe or Africa.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In a nutshell I want a user to select all the points by continent instead of loading the whole dataset.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m sure there’s an easy way to do this , and I’m probably going to slap myself for not thinking of this earlier.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m relatively new to OSGIS and I’m getting the hang of it. I’ve been an ESRI guy for a while.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks in advance for the feedback.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers!!!<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>