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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1F3864'>thank you all. i guess i was taking the instructions too literally, i wanted to see 'Merge Shapefiles to One...'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1F3864'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1F3864'>thanks again,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1F3864'>mf<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1F3864'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Dave Marshall <43carnaby@gmail.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, April 12, 2020 2:11 PM<br><b>To:</b> Mark Fogarty <mark@fogartyconsulting.com><br><b>Cc:</b> qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Qgis-user] merge shapefiles into one<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Mark,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I recently upgraded to 3.12 and didn't do anything extra to the standard upgrade but I do have the option - see below:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><img width=551 height=311 style='width:5.7395in;height:3.2395in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D610DE.52909700"><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dave<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 at 19:07, Mark Fogarty <<a href="mailto:mark@fogartyconsulting.com">mark@fogartyconsulting.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal>hi. i'm new to the list and qgis, apologies if this has been asked. we're<br>working with the us census tract files available from <a href="http://census.gov" target="_blank">census.gov</a> here:<br><br><a href="https://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles/index.php?year=2019&layergroup=Census+Tracts" target="_blank">https://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles/index.php?year=2019&layergroup<br>=Census+Tracts</a><br><br>they are published as 54 separate zip files, one per state. we would like to<br>combine them into a single dataset. i found a lot of pages on the web that<br>suggest using qgis for that purpose. they all start with <br><br>Click on the Vector menu, Data Management tools, Merge Shapefiles to<br>One... <br><br>i just installed qgis 3.12.1, but my vector / data management tools menu<br>doesn't have that option. has that tool been removed, or is there a plugin i<br>need to install or maybe a different version? <br><br>is that data already available in a combined format from somewhere, or is<br>there a better way to do this? <br><br>thanks<br><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Qgis-user mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>List info: <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a><br>Unsubscribe: <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>