[Qgis-user] QGIS Spatial Query

[Carlos Cerdán]

... or if, as it says on subject, this is a Spatial Query, you can try the
"point sampling tool" plugin to take the value that you want from polygons
that overlaps your points.

Good luck

Carlos Cerdán


2013/7/25 Randal Hale <rjhale at northrivergeographic.com>

>  First thing I would try would be doing a spatial join. A spatial Join
> will take the attributes from the polygon layer and add them to your point
> layer.
>
> Vector Menu -> Data Management Tools -> Join Attributes by location. You
> will get more than just the one column but the extra can be removed.
>
> Randy
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> On 07/25/2013 09:05 AM, Steven Campbell wrote:
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>  I was wondering if I could do the following within QGIS:****
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> I want to update a column in my point layer with the attribute information
> from a specific column in a polygon layer - so I have a layer of postcodes
> and I want to give create a column, call it School Catchment and I want to
> populate this column with the value of the school name column from the
> catchment area polygon layer.****
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