Hi Sarah, have a look at "Vector -> Data Management tools --> Join Attributes by Location" or use the Spatial Query Plugin in combination with the field calculator.
Either way should work for you. Andreas Am 11.03.2014 08:50, schrieb Lynkos: > Back again needing your help... > I have a point shapefile containing bird observations and another polygon > shapefile containing the boundaries of local authority areas. Using these, > I need to add a column to the point shapefile attribute table containing > the name of the local authority area in which the point falls. > If the two files were both polygons, I would do an intersect or union. But > doing this with a point file and a polygon file creates a shapefile, but > without merging the attribute tables correctly. I get all the headings of > both files, but the attributes of only one or the other of the files. > I'm using QGIS 2.2. Thanks for any suggestions on how to achieve my result, > Sarah. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
