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QGIS CRS differs from CRS extent [closed]
I am having the same issue described in this post QGIS: CRS and CRS in extent different - what to do?, but there are no suggested fixes or answers.
I have two polar grid layers, one created by me in R,...
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Default location for QGIS 3.28 to save shapefiles [closed]
I understand that QGIS points to the location of shp layer files. Where are these files saved to by default so that I can find them? I have a Windows 11 PC and laptop.
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How do I dodge overlapping line/polygon layers so that each is visible in QGIS?
I have 3 separate polygon layers that often overlap (image below). How do I change the symbology in QGIS to have them parallel to one another and not overlapping? (as shown in the second image below).
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Identifying district boundaries outliers in QGIS
I have a Nigeria shapefile that shows the district boundaries, I also have geocordinates of some health facilities, when I visualize on QGIS, I notice outliers ; some facilities are showing in a ...
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Copying objects between layers
I have a problem with copying objects between shapes in ArcMap 10.8. I do this:
first I activate the editing of the layer where I want to paste,
then I select the necessary objects in another layer,
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How to use data that is in a shapefile as another layer
I've got a shapefile with a large amount of different data attributes in. I would like to use the symbology of the base map to show income inequality as a %, but I would also like to some how over lay ...
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How do you export layer information into a shapefile?
Using ArcMap 10.8.1, trying to use information from the Web Soil Survey (using the viewer add-on, of course). I'm going to do the rest of my workflow in R/RStudio, I just need the data to be exported ...
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Exporting points as points, text as text (when exporting to svg)
I am using QGIS as an intermediary step to making an SVG/AI file.
I have layers which are point shapefiles, where the points in each layer are labelled.
However, when I export to SVG, QGIS does two ...
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Displaying a CSV layer and a .shp layer in the same project
I'm a newbie to GIS and particularly to QGIS. I am using QGIS 3.22.5 on MacOS 12.3.1 Monterey.
I want my project to display two layers. One layer is sourced from a CSV delimited text file. The other ...
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Merging features of the same class in QGIS
I am running with a problem that I want to merge all the features of the same vector class into one attribute. Below the green layer is the forest layer that has more than 11 thousand features, I want ...
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Merge Vector Layers fails on point layers with no log output [closed]
I'm trying to merge three layers in QGIS 3.10.14. Each layer contains only points and displays correctly in my map view.
When I use the Merge vector layers menu option, I get the correct dialogue box. ...
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Unselectable features from former shapefile layer persist in file
I have a file to which I added a custom shapefile layer to which I added a couple polygons. I saved it, reopened it the other day on a different computer and got an error message saying that the ...
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Field name changing, layer not saving
At some point recently, when I create a new shapefile layer, the field names are being changed, and changes to the layers are not being saved. For instance, I will create a new polygon layer and add a ...
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Updating layer in corresponding data frame in single MXD in ArcPy
I have a shapefile and a layer file. In the shapefile, I am updating the last column using a .dbf file, which has numeric values. So, the last column of the shapefile will be updated five times and I ...
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How to do a layer/ shapefile filling of thickness / transparent by value in QGIS?
I have a shapefile with 500 rows.
My goals is to assign each row a specific value of transparency.
I know I can group these and then manually assign a transparency to these groups, however I want to ...
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