Carson, Perfect! That is exactly what I was looking for--thanks! It appears that a lot of the other functions in fTools will be useful in future as well, so thanks!
Cheers, Darren Cope http://dmcope.freeshell.org http://bluesignweekly.blogspot.com/ On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:35 AM, Carson Farmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Darren, > >> I'm looking for a way to write X/Y coordinates for a point shapefile >> back into two columns (X/Y) in the shapefile's attribute table. Can >> QGIS do this? If so, how? > > You can try the compute geometry plugin that comes with fTools. This > will take your input shapefile, compute the x and y coordinates, and > then create an identical new shapefile with the added fields. You can > also download and install the individual compute geometry tool. > > Both are available here: > > http://www.geog.uvic.ca/spar/carson/cfarmerQgisRepo.xml/ > > Just add this to your plugin installer repository list. > >> Ideally, the less steps required the >> better, as this is something that will need to be repeated multiple >> times--thus a script would be ideal! > > I'll see if I can adapt a simple script from the above plugin, and try > to get back to you... > > -- > Carson Farmer > National Centre for Geocomputation > John Hume Building, > National University of Ireland, Maynooth, > Maynooth, > Co. Kildare, > Ireland. > www.carsonfarmer.com > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user