[Qgis-user] Filling field with data

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Pat,

The "Vector" --> "Data management tools" --> "Join attributes by
location" will also join attributes from the polygon layer - of course,
depending on the spatial join, it will have to aggregate the data like
you also have to in SQL if you have a 1:n relation - but you can also
choose to use the attributes of the first hit.

Other than that I do not think the field calculator allows to reference
data from other layers.

In QGIS 2.1 we will work on database relations. Although spatial joins
are not the primary goal of this work, we may work on these as well.

Hope this helps.

Andreas

Am 23.09.2013 19:41, schrieb Pat Brown:
> Hi,
>    I have a polygon layer and a point layer. Using "Points in Polygons" I
> have isolated a set of points that occur in one particular polygon. This
> polygon has a name in the polygon Attribute Table. I have created a field
> in the point table and now I want to read from the polygon table the name
> of the polygon and write it into the point table against each of the points
> in the selection. I cannot work out the syntax in the calculator to read
> from one table and write to another table. Can anyone help please?
> 
> Pat
> 
> 
> 
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