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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA"> Nora
Badenhorst <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 25 March 2025 09:30<br>
<b>To:</b> qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> "Phantom" point in created layer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Good morning,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please help!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">QGIS version: 3.34.15-Prizren<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><img border="0" width="494" height="229" style="width:5.1416in;height:2.3833in" id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image007.png@01DB9D68.170A9250"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am counting informal structures in our project areas. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I created a shapefile layer and use the “Toggle editing – Add polygon feature” function to add a point. Every structure gets a dot.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the end I use the count of the attribute table as the count of structures.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">During QC I saw that there are a lot of “point” in the attribute table that was
<b>not</b> created by me and does not show on the map?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In all the layers I created there were about 2500 “phantom” point that I did not create.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dots created to count the structures.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I selected all the points created.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><img border="0" width="716" height="334" style="width:7.4583in;height:3.4833in" id="_x0000_i1030" src="cid:image003.png@01DB9D65.EA00F2B0"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Attribute table indicates that there are 216 structures (if you only use the count without selecting the dots), but there are only 145 points?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><img border="0" width="322" height="274" style="width:3.35in;height:2.85in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image004.png@01DB9D66.EF7997F0"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I created a layer with all the “non-selected” points (the ones that we did not create), and they are somewhere in the ocean?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><img border="0" width="455" height="534" style="width:4.7416in;height:5.5583in" id="_x0000_i1027" src="cid:image005.png@01DB9D67.523CA4E0"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The difference between using the count in the attribute table normally (blue) and then selecting the actual created point in yellow.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><img border="0" width="426" height="345" style="width:4.4333in;height:3.5916in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image006.png@01DB9D67.EF864CB0"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please help me understand this mystery….<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanking you in advance.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nôra<o:p></o:p></p>
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