<div dir="ltr">By any chance, are these points at Lat, Lon 0,0 meaning that they have no geometry?<div><br></div><div>Stewart</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM Nora Badenhorst via QGIS-User <<a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg9190385766267553569">
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 25 March 2025 09:30<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> "Phantom" point in created layer<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Good morning,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please help!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">QGIS version: 3.34.15-Prizren<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am counting informal structures in our project areas. <u></u>
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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.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the end I use the count of the attribute table as the count of structures.<u></u><u></u></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?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In all the layers I created there were about 2500 “phantom” point that I did not create.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dots created to count the structures.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I selected all the points created.<u></u><u></u></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?<u></u><u></u></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?<u></u><u></u></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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please help me understand this mystery….<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanking you in advance.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nôra<u></u><u></u></p>
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