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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">First thing I would try would be doing
      a spatial join. A spatial Join will take the attributes from the
      polygon layer and add them to your point layer. <br>
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      Vector Menu -> Data Management Tools -> Join Attributes by
      location. You will get more than just the one column but the extra
      can be removed. <br>
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      Randy<br>
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Randal Hale, GISP
North River Geographic Systems, Inc
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      On 07/25/2013 09:05 AM, Steven Campbell wrote:<br>
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            style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I
            was wondering if I could do the following within QGIS:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I
            want to update a column in my point layer with the attribute
            information from a specific column in a polygon layer - so I
            have a layer of postcodes and I want to give create a
            column, call it School Catchment and I want to populate this
            column with the value of the school name column from the
            catchment area polygon layer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Any
            help would be greatly appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Steve
            Campbell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">GIS
            Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Corporate
            Strategy and Communications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Borough
            of Poole | Civic Centre | Poole BH15 2RU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tel:
            01202 633 362<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Email:
            <a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:s.campbell@poole.gov.uk">s.campbell@poole.gov.uk</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Website:<a
              moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="http://www.boroughofpoole.com/">www.boroughofpoole.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00B050">Think
                Green! Please Recycle<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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