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New flow direction attribute for sub-catchment layer in QGIS

I have a polygon layer in QGIS with self-created sub-catchments. I also have a DEM, a flow-direction raster and a raster with the corresponding stream network and stream order. I would like to create ...
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Getting the attributes of particular polygon in QGIS

I downloaded a shapefile that has demographic data for census tracts for a city - each represented by a polygon in the vector layer. I can click the attribute table icon to see the whole sheet of ...
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How do you add information to a polygon from multiple polygons based on location in QGIS?

I have a couple of points and have made a buffer layer of 1km around each point, which contain information about which point it represents. I have another raster layer (containing information ...
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Summing length of lines of a specific category from another layer in QGIS

I have a polygon layer of ski resorts call skiResorts. I have a liner layer of pistes called pistes. The pistes layer has 2 several attributes and include aa_piste_length and aa_piste_difficulty. ...
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Connecting the boundaries of two polygons

I have a number of polygons with a section of 'empty space' between them, like this: They are set up on the same layer, with different entries in the attribute table. I'm looking for a way to join ...
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"Duplicating" the attribute table for many polygons in QGIS

I have about 45 polygons that refer to parcels of land and I want to create the same attribute table for all of them and edit the information/prices afterwards depending on the parcel. "Joining&...
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Add attribute to polygon layer that is average of polylines that lie within border qgis

I Have two layers, one is a polygon and the other is a polyline. I would like the solution to be using QGIS. I want to create a new attribute in the polygon layer that take the average of the ...
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Using fields in attribute table to generate new polygon

Is it possible to use fields in the attribute table to duplicate/ generate a new polygon with the field information? I have a series of numbered polygons (Features) which I want to be able to link to ...
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Merging adjacent polygons with aggregated sum beeing inside a certain range

The data I have a polygon layer with polygons (download the data here) of different sizes as can be seen on the screenshot. Each polygon contains a value for the attribute called count. The range of ...
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Request attribute information from multiple polygons below a point

In QGIS I created a "grid" with points 100 m apart from each other. Below this layer of points there are multiple layers of polygons. Each polygon has a column with values in its attribute ...
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Splitting population among overlapping polygons

I'm quite new to QGIS. I have one layer that is a quadratic grid with a different population in each square, and I have another layer with two polygons that I got from the Travel Time plugin. I want ...
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Can compilation and display of species frequency data be improved using QGIS

I am new to QGIS 1.8.0. I would like to find out if the way I put a species frequency map together could be improved upon. I had to map the presence or absence of 7 plant species surveyed in 30 2m x ...
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Assigning attribute to polygon after polygonization in QGIS

I've created 50+ polygons by polygonizing a contour derived from a USGS Digital Elevation Model, and I've and fixed the geometries of the polygon layer. Now I want to assign an attribute (mtn or ...
3 votes
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What is the right sequence of actions when creating new polygon layer with given attribute table structure?

I want to create a new vector layer with polygons in it. I've an Excel file with the columns that have to be the attributes in the layer's attribute table. How do I achieve this? I'm kinda lost, I ...
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Adding attribute of polygon orientation depending on neighbors in QGIS

I have a shapefile with buildings as polygons. Is it possible to add attribute columns referring if the polygon boundary is "other polygon" or "outdoors" for a certain orientation (...

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