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

[Tom Faro]

Hi David,

My apologies to both you and Matt as I should have been clearer. My aim is to merge them both so that I can use this shapefile in another piece of software (which will only accept one shapefile to be viewed at a time). However, what you are both suggesting does work perfectly if I want to stay in QGIS, so thanks very much for your help!

Regards,
Tom

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From: David Fawcett [mailto:david.fawcett at gmail.com]
Sent: 19 June 2015 15:06
To: Matt Boyd
Cc: Tom Faro; qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Merging Shapefiles on Top of Each Other

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<mailto: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<mailto: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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