If I understand your challenge, you want to join a spreadsheet with id to existing id in a spatial layer. If that is the case, there is a good article on Stackexchange should give you some tips how to accomplish it.
https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/182281/how-to-join-data-from-excel-to-an-attribute-table-in-qgis-without-creating-dupli Best, C;lifford On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 1:23 PM, Ananda Kalansuriya < ananda.kalansur...@stdc.govt.nz> wrote: > Hi > > > > I am fairly new to QGIS and currently using ver. 2.18. > > > > From a master spatial layer of water pipes I need to copy selected water > pipes to create a new layer. > > The selected PIPE IDs are in an Excel file. The master spatial layer > contains a full list of PIPE IDs. > > > > How do I do this? > > > > Thanks > > Kalansuriya > > This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential and > privileged > information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the > sender immediately by return e-mail, delete this e-mail and destroy > any > copies. Any dissemination or use of this information by a person other > than the intended recipient is unauthorised and may be illegal. Please > note that this communication does not designate an information system > for the purposes of the Electronic Transactions Act 2002. > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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