[Qgis-user] force centroid INSIDE polygon

[John Bryant]

Exactly my problem.  I have a poly shapefile with some very irregular
polygons, I want to create a point dataset where each point is inside
exactly one polygon, and each polygon contains exactly one point.

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Giovanni Manghi
<giovanni.manghi at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi, the centroid is the barycenter of geometric shape, so it can be very
> well outside it.
>
> cheers
>
> -- Giovanni --
>
> On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 10:33 -0700, John Bryant wrote:
> > Relative newbie question alert.
> >
> > Is there a way in QGIS to create "centroids" for a polygon shapefile
> > where the points are guaranteed to be inside the polygon?  I've had a
> > look through the plugins and nothing is jumping out at me.
> >
> > Thanks
> > John Bryant
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