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I use the process on a postgis DB, but Shapefiles are also capable
of having tabular data without geometries attached.<br>
However I do not know how you would create such a file (easily) from
an existing geometry-less layer.<br>
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Maybe something like this:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/327/how-can-i-convert-an-excel-file-with-x-y-columns-to-a-shapefile">http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/327/how-can-i-convert-an-excel-file-with-x-y-columns-to-a-shapefile</a><br>
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Or try with adding a dummy geometry column in a csv so it loads as
points and then save as shapefile.<br>
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Best,<br>
Matthias<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/16/2015 03:00 PM, DelazJ wrote:<br>
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Matthias, what kind of format can this file be?<br>
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This is not the first time I see MapInfo user asking about
this feature. I personnaly had last week to add geometries
to features that were in a tabular file (csv) and couldn't
find how to do this except giving an unique ID to the table
data, and in another shapefile digitizing, filling ID after
each drawing and, at the end joining layers. It was possible
because there was not so many features but it's unfriendly.<br>
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I thought I could save the csv into shapefile (even empty)
and proceed with the "add part" tool but "saving as" failed.<br>
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It would be nice if we could find a way to address this
"issue"...<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2015-11-16 7:22 GMT+01:00 Matthias Kuhn
<span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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IIRC you can use the "add part" tool to create geometries
for existing<br>
objects. Just use the attribute table to select the proper
object and<br>
then digitize with the add part tool. Of course the selected
layer has<br>
to be capable of saving geomtries in the format you like
(i.e. you<br>
cannot geometrizise an excel table).<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Matthias<br>
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