<div dir="ltr"><div>... or if, as it says on subject, this is a Spatial Query, you can try the "point sampling tool" plugin to take the value that you want from polygons that overlaps your points.<br><br></div>Good luck <br>
<br>Carlos Cerdán<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/7/25 Randal Hale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjhale@northrivergeographic.com" target="_blank">rjhale@northrivergeographic.com</a>></span><br>
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<div>First thing I would try would be doing
a spatial join. A spatial Join will take the attributes from the
polygon layer and add them to your point layer. <br>
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Vector Menu -> Data Management Tools -> Join Attributes by
location. You will get more than just the one column but the extra
can be removed. <br>
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Randy<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I
was wondering if I could do the following within QGIS:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I
want to update a column in my point layer with the attribute
information from a specific column in a polygon layer - so I
have a layer of postcodes and I want to give create a
column, call it School Catchment and I want to populate this
column with the value of the school name column from the
catchment area polygon layer.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Any
help would be greatly appreciated.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thanks<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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