[Qgis-user] Question on how to add data to shapefiles

[Agustin Lobo]

...and if you cannot write a dbf, use the Delimited Text plugin to read your 
ascii file and save as shp.
Agus
Kumaran Narayanaswamy wrote:
> Hello Katie,
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> You can use the Ftools Plugin -  Join Attribute tool to do this. Store 
> your ASCII file as DBF file and using the Join attribute tool using the 
> Join field (IED) you can link the attributes to the shape file.
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> Hope this helps.
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> Regards
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> Kumaran
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> *From:* qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
> [mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Carbonari, 
> Katie (IS)
> *Sent:* Monday, December 07, 2009 7:24 PM
> *To:* Swapnil Chaudhari
> *Cc:* qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* RE: [Qgis-user] Question on how to add data to shapefiles
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> Thanks for the advice. To answer your question, my grid is not a regular 
> grid. My grid is defined in one of my shapefiles. When you look at the 
> shapefile in Attribute table, this is what you see:
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> IED     X             Y        KS
> 1   453780.594 3961930.333     3
> 2   515181.635 3977431.333     3
> 3   568577.604 4179629.000     3
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> where IED is the cell number I mentioned before, X and Y are in UTM 
> coordinates, don't know what KS (it's always 3). So the ascii file I 
> want to add has 2 columns, the first being 1 through length of file that 
> corresponds with the IED value in my shapefile and the second column is 
> the data.
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> Thanks,
> Katie
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Swapnil Chaudhari [mailto:sslan at rediffmail.com]
> Sent: Sat 12/5/2009 7:17 AM
> To: Carbonari, Katie (IS)
> Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Question on how to add data to shapefiles
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> Dear Katie,
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> There is a way to get this work done, I'm not sure if it is the right 
> way though.
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> Use the plugin name delimited text layer. You will have to save your 
> ASCII file to .csv format which is possible in windows notepad.
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> Feed in the details when you open the plugin.
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> What surprises me is, ".....There are 200,000 lines in each ASCII file, 
> with each line corresponding to the cell numbers in the shapefiles." I'm 
> not sure what you mean by cell number. Is it raster that has been 
> converted to vector.
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> Hope it works
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> Cheers
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> On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:54:01 +0530  wrote
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> Good morning. I'm new to GIS and very new to QGIS. I have 3 files I need 
> to visualize. 2 are shapefiles that I easily visualized in QGIS. The 
> other file is an ASCII text file that has various parameters. There are 
> 200,000 lines in each ASCII file, with each line corresponding to the 
> cell numbers in the shapefiles. I want to visualize the data in the 
> ASCII file using the same grid in the shapfiles. Does anyone know a way 
> to do this? Any help would be appreciated.
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