[Qgis-user] Search through folders and combine SHP files

[Tony Shepherd (FarmMaps NZ)]

Hi

 

I have loads, literally thousands, of SHP, GPKG, TAB files located in loads
of different folders and sub-folders.

 

Is there a plugin that will trawl through a set of folders, copy say just
the polygons from each file into a new file, and populate a field with say
the filename and folder the polygon(s) came from?

 

Essentially combining a heap of files into one with some metadata about
where the data came from?

 

Why?  I have files from clients dating back about 20 years.  Clients sell
properties.  Properties get subdivided.  New clients come and see us, and
often we don't realise we have GIS info on file for that property from many
years ago, usually under a different name.  It would be handy to see a
polygon on the screen and easily go back to some old GIS data.

 

Maybe I am missing an easy tool to do this, but I can't see anything
obvious.

 

 

Cheers

Tony

 

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