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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hallo Chris,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Why are you using "Add polygon feature" when your goal appears to be adding points?<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sorry, I now realised that I wrote “polygon feature”. I actually use “Add point feature”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>What is the geometry of your shapefile layer? If you intend to have points in it, then the geometry should be "point".<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> chris hermansen <clhermansen@gmail.com>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 25 March 2025 17:42<br>
<b>To:</b> Nora Badenhorst <norabadenhorst@nova.org.za><br>
<b>Cc:</b> qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Qgis-user] FW: "Phantom" point in created layer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nora and list,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 12:05<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span>PM Nora Badenhorst via QGIS-User <<a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I am counting informal structures in our project areas.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">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>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Why are you using "Add polygon feature" when your goal appears to be adding points?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What is the geometry of your shapefile layer? If you intend to have points in it, then the geometry should be "point".<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Chris Hermansen · clhermansen "at" gmail "dot" com<br>
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C'est ma façon de parler.<o:p></o:p></p>
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