[Qgis-user] Creating Geometries for tabular data

[Martin Bain]

Hi,
I'm after your suggestions for the best work flow for adding spatial data to existing tabular data.
Say we have a tabular list of playground equipment - I want to associate a point object with each row in the list - so I end up with spatial and attribute data in the one table.

I used to do this in MapInfo, you could open a table of purely tabular data, select a row in the attribute table, adding a point in the map window would create a map object for the selected row (rather than adding a whole new row to the table).  I don't think I can do it like that with QGIS - am I right in thinking if there is no geometry for a row it will be excluded from the attribute table?

How do people do this in QGIS?

Thanks,
Martin.

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