Perfect, exactly what I was after. Sorry I didn't spot that myself!<br><br>Cheers<br>John<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Giovanni Manghi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:giovanni.manghi@gmail.com">giovanni.manghi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">then use the "random points" tool in the vector menu.<br>
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On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 10:43 -0700, John Bryant wrote:<br>
> Exactly my problem. I have a poly shapefile with some very irregular<br>
> polygons, I want to create a point dataset where each point is inside<br>
> exactly one polygon, and each polygon contains exactly one point.<br>
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> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Giovanni Manghi<br>
> <<a href="mailto:giovanni.manghi@gmail.com">giovanni.manghi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi, the centroid is the barycenter of geometric shape, so it<br>
> can be very<br>
> well outside it.<br>
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> cheers<br>
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> -- Giovanni --<br>
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> On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 10:33 -0700, John Bryant wrote:<br>
> > Relative newbie question alert.<br>
> ><br>
> > Is there a way in QGIS to create "centroids" for a polygon<br>
> shapefile<br>
> > where the points are guaranteed to be inside the polygon?<br>
> I've had a<br>
> > look through the plugins and nothing is jumping out at me.<br>
> ><br>
> > Thanks<br>
> > John Bryant<br>
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