[Qgis-user] FW: "Phantom" point in created layer

[Stewart Holt]

By any chance, are these points at Lat, Lon 0,0 meaning that they have no
geometry?

Stewart

On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM Nora Badenhorst via QGIS-User <
qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

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> *From:* Nora Badenhorst
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 25 March 2025 09:30
> *To:* qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* "Phantom" point in created layer
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> Good morning,
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> Please help!
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> QGIS version: 3.34.15-Prizren
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> I am counting informal structures in our project areas.
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> I created a shapefile layer and use the “Toggle editing – Add polygon
> feature”  function to add a point. Every structure gets a dot.
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> In the end I use the count of the attribute table as the count of
> structures.
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> During QC I saw that there are a lot of “point” in the attribute table
> that was *not* created by me and does not show on the map?
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> In all the layers I created there were about 2500 “phantom” point that I
> did not create.
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> Dots created to count the structures.
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> I selected all the points created.
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> Attribute table indicates that there are 216 structures (if you only use
> the count without selecting the dots), but there are only 145 points?
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> I created a layer with all the “non-selected” points (the ones that we did
> not create), and they are somewhere in the ocean?
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> The difference between using the count in the attribute table normally
> (blue) and then selecting the actual created point in yellow.
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> Please help me understand this mystery….
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> Thanking you in advance.
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> Nôra
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