[Qgis-user] Link tables

[Ramon Andinach]

On 10/05/2011, at 21:03 , Chris Buddenhagen wrote:

> How can I link species occurrences with county names to the county shape file to display counties when I click or query a species?
> 
> Chris Buddenhagen

As the species occurrence list has county names, you could use a JOIN to link the two files together.
In 1.6 it's in the vector menu list.
In 1.7 it's a tab in the layer properties dialogue.

QGIS is able to open non-spatial CSV or DBF format files through the Add Vector system.

Does this help?

-ramon.