RE: [Qgis-user] Dissolve and sum of merged attributes?

2012-03-28 Thread Fredrik.Floren
@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Dissolve and sum of merged attributes? Whenever I encounter an aggregation problem like this, my inclination is to move to the realm of the database. In this case, you can take advantage of Spatialite with its full SQL support to get what you want

Re: [Qgis-user] Dissolve and sum of merged attributes?

2012-03-28 Thread Micha Silver
  From: Micha Silver [mailto:mi...@arava.co.il] Sent: den 27 mars 2012 8:10 To: Florn, Fredrik C. Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Dissolve and sum

RE: [Qgis-user] Dissolve and sum of merged attributes?

2012-03-28 Thread Fredrik.Floren
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Dissolve and sum of merged attributes? On 28/03/2012 09:40, fredrik.flo...@teliasonera.commailto:fredrik.flo...@teliasonera.com wrote: Micha, thank you for your very comprehensive reply. As I understand it Spatialite is only concerned with the attribute table

Re: [Qgis-user] Dissolve and sum of merged attributes?

2012-03-27 Thread Micha Silver
Whenever I encounter an aggregation problem like this, my inclination is to move to the realm of the database. In this case, you can take advantage of Spatialite with its full SQL support to get what you want. In order to try out the process, I downloaded a

[Qgis-user] Dissolve and sum of merged attributes?

2012-03-26 Thread Dr_Strangelove
In a layer I have, e.g., a map of a number of areas of a country. Each area has a row in the attribute table and a associated polygon. Each area also has a number of fields with numerical values. Is there a way to merge the areas based on a field value and sum the respective values of another