Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Join attributes in 1.7

2011-09-22 Thread Ramon AndiƱach
When I ran into this a little while ago, what surprised me about this, wasn't so much that the join didn't understand column types when joining a CSV, but that it didn't recognise column types when joining a dbf. That surprised me - or maybe I hallucinated. Has anyone else noticed the same

Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Join attributes in 1.7

2011-08-23 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I think a guess and then a UI to show you what it thought was right so you can tweak it. I prefer to explicitly tell something how to import rather than it get fancy, guess and mess it up. - Nathan On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Anita Graser anitagra...@gmx.at wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011

[Qgis-user] Re: Join attributes in 1.7

2011-08-22 Thread magerlin
Hi I am trying to use this method, but all columns/attributes in my csv file appears as text so I can not use them for instance for scaling (in New symbology). Is there any way to control how Qgis interpret the data when adding a csv file? -- View this message in context:

Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Join attributes in 1.7

2011-08-22 Thread Anita Graser
Hi, You'll have to create a .csvt file. More info: http://underdark.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/how-to-specify-data-types-of-csv-columns-for-use-in-qgis/ Anita On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 3:26 PM, magerlin m...@ramboll.dk wrote: Hi I am trying to use this method, but all columns/attributes in my