[Qgis-user] qGIS 1.8 Vector Points in Polygon function?

[欧阳乐岩]

On 06/29/2012 08:28 AM, Chavoux Luyt wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> I recently upgraded qGIS to version 1.8 in order to run the points in
> polygon analysis (see e.g.
> http://qgis.spatialthoughts.com/2012/02/tutorial-spatial-analysis-points-in.html
> ). I used to have qGIS 1.7.0 installed which did not have this function
> in my installation (on Mepis 11 : Debian squeeze based). But I cannot
> find it in the new version of qGIS either? What do I need to do for this
> kind of analysis? (I want to use a text value of the polygon to update a
> text column in all the points within that polygon). Or should I just use
> GRASS for this kind of analysis? (Both are points and polygon are .shp
> files). (On this I have another question... but that is a separate issue).
>
> Thanks
> Chavoux
>
>

Make sure you have the ftools plugin installed and activated. I thought 
it would be on by default?

What you want to do is done with the "Join attribute by location" in 
"Vector->Data Management"

Leyan