[Qgis-user] Merging Shapefiles on Top of Each Other

[David Fawcett]

Tom,

As Matt says, you don't need to combine the roads and sectors into the same
dataset to display them together in QGIS.  You can add both separate
datasets to a map and you can order the layers so that the roads are drawn
after the polygons.

David.

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Matt Boyd <mattslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Tom,
> Have a look at some of the QGIS tutorials (google or the QGIS website
> shoudl have some). It sounds like you just need to overlay the layers in
> the correct order, merge generally means something else.
> You can drag / move the layers around / up / down in the layers window.
> Generally from top to bottom, points, lines, polygons. There is also an
> option to give each layer a level of transparency.
>
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Tom Faro <Tom.Faro at zenith-insurance.co.uk
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>  I have been having some trouble with merging two shapefiles – one is a
>> map of all sectors in the UK and one is a map of all motorways in the UK. I
>> have successfully merged them by putting them both as polygons. However,
>> when I fill in the sectors with different colours the road map disappears.
>> The same happens when I use the same shapefile in other software.
>>
>>
>>
>> Is it possible to merge them so that the roads are always on top? Any
>> Help with this matter would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Many Thanks,
>> Tom
>>
>>
>>
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