[Qgis-user] clipping shapefiles

[Randal Hale]

if you want to clip along a county there are several ways to do this. My 
suggestion.

Select the county (I am assuming you have that as a layer in QGIS).
Go to Vector -> Geoprocessing tools -> Clip
Clip out the streets using the selected county.

That should give you a new streets layer.

Randal Hale, GISP
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On 7/27/2012 10:35 AM, Ziegler Stefan wrote:
>
> Just hit the button and a additional file in the directory where your 
> shapefiles are is created (*.qix). Panning and zooming should be much 
> faster now.
>
> Regards
>
> Stefan
>
> *Von:*michael chiverton [mailto:qgislist at gmail.com]
> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 27. Juli 2012 15:55
> *An:* Ziegler Stefan
> *Betreff:* Re: [Qgis-user] clipping shapefiles
>
> actually i have not....i see the option, but how is this process done, 
> and what occurrs as a result of creating a spatial index?  thanks for 
> your response.
>
> mike
>
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Ziegler Stefan 
> <Stefan.Ziegler at bd.so.ch <mailto:Stefan.Ziegler at bd.so.ch>> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Did you try to create a spatial index for the shapefile? (Layer 
> properties -> General -> Create Spatial Index).
>
> Regards
>
> Stefan
>
> *Von:*qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
> <mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> 
> [mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
> <mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>] *Im Auftrag von *michael 
> chiverton
> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 27. Juli 2012 15:24
> *An:* Qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:Qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Betreff:* [Qgis-user] clipping shapefiles
>
> hi all,
>
> i have loaded the entire shapefile of NYS streets from the clearing 
> house and is much to large for qgis to smoothely run, so.....i am 
> familiar with clipping, but am not sure how to slip out the section of 
> dutchess county that i am interested in. can anyone help me do this?
>
> regards,
>
> mike
>
>
>
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