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Display colour coded road traffic data in QGIS

I would like to colour code a shape file containing road polylines to represent the heaviest flows of traffic. The shape file contains attribute data linked to each section of road where road traffic ...
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Merge attribute data using spatial query in QGIS

I have 2 vector layers that I wish to correlate attributes - a shape file containing boundary polygons and a shape file containing point locations. I'm using the vector>spatial query tool to generate ...
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Capitalizing The First Letter Of Each Word In Attribute Field

Does anyone know of a way to capitalize the first letter of each word in a field in an attribute table? I am doing this in QGIS. I know of field calculations to change all the words to Lower or ...
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Join attributes by date in Qgis

I learned (thanks!) to use the join feature built into the layer properties, but in my case it doesn't work because data do not match perfectly. Infact shape refers to geotagged photos, csv is a log ...
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How do you parse an HTML formatted attribute value to seperate columns in a database table?

All, I have an attribute field formatted using HTML all ready to go for google earth markers. The KML in question is here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/95231813/state_pts_MI.kml Here is the value: ...
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How to create a label formatted like “ 1,000' ” from a numeric field?

This question builds on a previous question I came across at gis.stackexchange: How to easily edit attribute data using Regular Expressions? Perhaps someone can point me in the right direction? I ...
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loading CanVec directory full of .shp files

I'm totally new to QGIS, and trying to view a Canadian Topo map as published on an iMac - I don't want to change it. ...
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Generating new shp files according to attribute in QGIS

I know that it is possible to color a vector map by attribute. I separated a map into 4 colors based on an attribute and now I want to generate a new map for each color. Is there a way to do this in ...
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How to make a certain attribute Toggelable? [duplicate]

I have imported data from an excel spreadsheet containing lat,long coordinates associated with other attributes such as current operator of each point (well). I imported as a tab delimited file, then ...
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Joining attributes of polygons and points by location in QGIS

I have two shapefiles.... points containing a number field 'response_time' a polygon grid of square polygons containing fields including 'PNTCNT' with the number of points per polygon, calculated ...
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What is the best way to connect spatial data with attributes in Excel table?

I have many attributes which are stored in an Excel table. They refer to USA counties. I need to somehow connect those attributes to polygons in some format (don't know which is the best) and ...
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What specifically is an 'attribute' and how does it work with the related chart?

I'm a new QGIS user (and GIS technology in general) and I'm trying to learn its fundamental features. I have a big dilemma about vector shapefiles, and points in particular: basically, I don't ...
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How to save WMS getFeatureInfo points to a layer?

This may be a poorly worded question, because I am not sure of the exact terminology, but I'll give it a shot. I have imported a vector layer from a WMS server into QGIS. I am able to query the ...
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Spatial join including attributes - kind of like right join

I've run in to a little problem. I have two sets of polygons with important attributes. I need to join over the attributes from the first set to the other, but I can't seem to figure out how. ...
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ArcGIS 10 - Raster cell values and raster attribute tables - reassign raster cell values from another attribute

It seems like this should be relatively easy to accomplish, but I've been messing with this issue off and on for a couple days and have not successfully figured it out. Problem: I have a large (size ...
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Calculate polygon field based on neigboring polygon attribute

I have a vector shape with many different sized polygons each possessing an own class name (for instance "houses", "houses with offices", etc ...) I want to assign a new field to each polygon ...
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How to easily edit attribute data using Regular Expressions?

I am writing a tutorial for MSc students that uses QGIS. One of the tasks requires the attribute data to be modified (see pdf draft of tutorial here if interested ). The question is how to get them ...
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How do I change the data type in attribute table in QGIS

I have county data in which the FIPs (actually State FIPS and County FIPS combined). I have data imported as CSV with the sames FIPS data titled STCounty. However, the shapefile FIPS is listed as a ...
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stacked colours according attributes

I have a hierachical List of attributes e.g. column (1) S (2) SD (3) SD0 or (1) A (2) AN (3) An1 etc. So there is one S with several SD s and several SD0 in the attribute table. When I display column ...
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QGIS GPS position after entering attributes

I would like to be able to fill a form and, before, during or after, be able to cath a GPS point. I already know the GPS extension but I have to catch the point and enter attributes after... Idea how ...
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Deleting columns from joined attribute table in QGIS

After joining the attribute tables from two layers, I have a lot of duplicate columns on my table, making it hard to read. However, even when in "edit" mode I am unable to select and delete columns. ...
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How to identify duplicate attributes in a field?

I have a point shapefile with thousand of points. It has an ID code field that supposed to be unique. Every now and then the data entry clerk wrongly type the id creating duplicates.Right now I'm ...
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How to access attribute data type in QGIS?

I've been developing a plugin on QGIS platform using PyQGIS. So far plugin does the following: You can select any feature of the already loaded vector layer in QGIS. After selection, plugin displays ...
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Can I change properties of several layers simultaneously?

I'm working on bulk data. I have a few hundred GeoTIFF images imported into a QGIS project, and I'd like to modify their layer properties - things like the no-data-value, transparency of certain pixel ...
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Join attribute table

I am using QGIS 1.7.3 on Mac and when I try to use the tool "join" in the properties toolbox, I have no possibility to add a name for either the file or the field used to join tables. Has anyone ...
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How to maintain schema when copying feature from layer 1 to layer 2, where both layers have same schema?

If I load two unique layers, wherein each layer contains unique data, but both layers share the exact same schema, why is it when I copy a feature from layer 1, and paste it into layer 2, the ...