[Qgis-user] merge shapefiles into one

[Nicolas Cadieux]

Hi,

If you have too many shapefile for this to work, drag and drop in Saga.  You can merge there.  Over a few hundred files, this if the fastest way to do it.  Saga will also add the file name to a new field.

Nicolas Cadieux
Ça va bien aller!

> Le 12 avr. 2020 à 15:11, Dave Marshall <43carnaby at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> 
> Mark,
> 
> I recently upgraded to 3.12 and didn't do anything extra to the standard upgrade but I do have the option - see below:
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> 
> Dave
> 
>> On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 at 19:07, Mark Fogarty <mark at fogartyconsulting.com> wrote:
>> hi. i'm new to the list and qgis, apologies if this has been asked. we're
>> working with the us census tract files available from census.gov here:
>> 
>> https://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles/index.php?year=2019&layergroup
>> =Census+Tracts
>> 
>> they are published as 54 separate zip files, one per state. we would like to
>> combine them into a single dataset. i found a lot of pages on the web that
>> suggest using qgis for that purpose. they all start with 
>> 
>> Click on the Vector menu, Data Management tools, Merge Shapefiles to
>> One...   
>> 
>> i just installed qgis 3.12.1, but my vector / data management tools menu
>> doesn't have that option. has that tool been removed, or is there a plugin i
>> need to install or maybe a different version? 
>> 
>> is that data already available in a combined format from somewhere, or is
>> there a better way to do this? 
>> 
>> thanks
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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