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I have two vector layers: one point and one polygon and I want to calculate the minimum distance of each point from the polygons (ie the distance from the closest point of the closest polygon). Is there any available plugin in QGIS for doing this? Thanks!

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you mean polygon vertices, the centroid or something else? – lynxlynxlynx Jun 22 '12 at 20:35
This task would be better handled by postgis. – Pablo Jun 23 '12 at 0:03
I mean the distance from the borders of the polygon (actually it's the distance of observed seabirds in the sea from the coastline that I want to calulate) – Sylvia Jun 23 '12 at 10:49
Pablo, unfortunately I don't know how to use PostGIS and I can't write code... – Sylvia Jun 23 '12 at 11:05

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Try Hub Distance in the mmqgis plugin.

http://michaelminn.com/linux/mmqgis/

Lets know how you go with it!

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Hub distance did the job, but for the record, I first converted the polygon into a point layer and calculated the minimum point-to-point distances. With the polygons it was calculating the minimum distance from the centroids or the middle of the coastal boundary – Sylvia Jun 23 '12 at 13:58

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