[Qgis-user] [Fwd: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Can I do the same GIS tasks with OS (as with ESRI)?]

[Marco Hugentobler]

Am Montag 28 April 2008 13:27:33 schrieb Jürgen E. Fischer:
> > a spatial join,
>
> covered by the geoprocessing plugin

Afaik a spatial join is something different than the geoprocessing plugin 
does. The geoprocessing plugin changes geometries and creates a new layer, 
possibly containing a different set of features. 

The spatial join in contrast only changes the attributes of a layer. If we 
have e.g. a point layer and a polygon layer, with a spatial join, the point 
features get the attributes of the polygon features they are contained in.

Regards,
Marco

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Dr. Marco Hugentobler
Institute of Cartography
ETH Zurich
Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee