<div dir="ltr">Many thanks for the replies, I think I've got that working now (although it is taking a very long time for the process to complete, think I was too impatient the first time round!).<div><br></div><div>Martin</div>
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    <div>Take a look at Vector -> Data
      Management -> Join Attributes by Location. <br>
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      See if that works! <br>
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Randal Hale, GISP
North River Geographic Systems, Inc
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      On 03/26/2014 03:50 PM, Martin Harvey wrote:<br>
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          <div dir="ltr">Question from a newbie: I have two vector
            layers, one containing points and one polygons. For each
            point I wish to know an attribute ("name") from the polygon
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            <div>I assume I need to do some sort of spatial join
              operation, but I've tried various options and searched
              qGIS documentation with no success.</div>
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