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!).
Martin On 26 March 2014 21:37, Randal Hale <rjh...@northrivergeographic.com> wrote: > Take a look at Vector -> Data Management -> Join Attributes by Location. > > See if that works! > > Randy > > ----------------- > Randal Hale, GISP > North River Geographic Systems, > Inchttp://www.northrivergeographic.com423.653.3611 > rjh...@northrivergeographic.com > twitter:rjhalehttp://about.me/rjhale > > On 03/26/2014 03:50 PM, Martin Harvey wrote: > > 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 that contains the point. > > 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. > > Thanks, > Martin > > -- > Martin Harvey > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing > listQgis-user@lists.osgeo.orghttp://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > >
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