[Qgis-user] Update Null Geometry

[Hugh Kelley]

Beautiful, thank you both!

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 11:14 AM Richard McDonnell <richard.mcdonnell at opw.ie>
wrote:

> Hi Hugh,
>
> Are you working with a CSV file? Or is it a shapefile?? Im not sure if
> this will work, but create a new point for a null geomety, you can then,
> using the Attribute table (in edit mode), *Merge Features*, by selecting
> the new geometry and the table row without geometry, then selecting *Merge
> Features* The popup will then allow you to merge the two, you can select
> the row without geometry and select “*Take attributes from selected
> feature*” this should merge your new geometry with the attribute.
>
> Regards,
>
>
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> Richard
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> *From:* Qgis-user <qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> *On Behalf Of *Hugh
> Kelley
> *Sent:* 20 January 2022 16:01
> *To:* qgis-user <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Subject:* [Qgis-user] Update Null Geometry
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> Hi all,
>
> I have a points dataset with a few null geometries in it.
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> Is there a tool that can update these in place?
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> It seems that the point editing tool must add a new row instead of
> updating an existing row.
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> The vertex editing tool seems unable to update a null geom since there's
> nothing to initially click on.
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> Maybe I'm missing a tool or way of using the vertex editing tool?
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> A less preferred workflow would be to create a separate file and manually
> add the points with the primary key as an attribute to later update on in
> postgres but it would be much cleaner to edit the table in place I think
> and I am curious if there is a solution since I'm not thinking anything up
> myself.
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> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> --
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> Hugh Kelley
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