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QGIS join data not transferring

I'm reanalyzing data from a VA Late Woodland Palisaded Village. The site is mapped in CAD and exported as a shapefile. QGIS brings up the 1059 features as polygons. I am using a CSV file for the ...
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Joining table to shapefile with pyQGIS

Joining shapefiles is a relatively straightforward proess in QGIS using 'add vector join' in the layer properties menu. I can add a csv file as a vector layer, as well as a shapefile, and join the two ...
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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 to use classified styles with joined layers?

I am trying to set a color range based on this tutorial In LAYER PROPERTIES for "new", in JOINS, I have joinlayer - data-join joinfield - GEO_ID2 targetfield - GEOID10 Where "new" is my shapefile ...
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How do “join field” and “target field” work?

New user. This should be simple, but I can't figure out how to perform this basic join in QGIS. (It works in Cartographica.) My shapefile (IL_BNDY_County_Py) has two fields/columns in its attribute ...
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Adding a new attribute to shapefile from Excel sheet [duplicate]

I have a shapefile in QGIS and I needed to add a attribute to the attribute table. The problem is that I have the information I need to add in an Excel file. How can I add the information from the ...
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Why does QGIS not detect the CSV/DBF column headers?

I am trying to import a csv or dbf into qGIS so I can perform a join on a shapefile. However, qGIS is not detecting the first row as header names. I know I've done similar joins before and there's ...
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How to join data from a CSV to a shapefile using QGIS

I'm new to GIS and new to StackedExchange. I need help joining a CSV of Accessibility data to a LSOA shapefile in QGIS. The process explained here does not work for me and I don't know why. The ...
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How to do a spatial join if QGIS 1.8 keeps crashing?

I am trying to perform a simple spatial join (adding polygon data to points) in QGIS 1.8: target vector: points join vector: polygons take attributes of first located feature keep all records ...
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How do I avoid text field truncation when saving a table join?

Using QGIS I've joined tabular text data (all in fields of less than 255 characters) to a shapefile via a CSV file. All looks good in the joined table but when I save to a new shapefile to make the ...
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Trouble with graduated symbols after joining shapefile with csv file

I have successfully joined data from a csv file to a shapefile in QGIS but for some reason I am having trouble symbolizing my data. I want to use a graduated symbology however this option is not ...
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vector tool missing when install QGIS 1.7.4 on new computer

I installed QGIS version 1.7.4 a few months ago. Under the menu Vector > Data Management Tools I have two options to make a join: 'Join Attributes' and 'Join attributes by location' (see screenshot). ...
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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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Join attributes of point and line layer by location (closest distance) in QGIS

My problem is the following: i have a line shp (target layer) and a point shp (join layer). the second one (point layer) holds an attribute which i want to join with a line layer based on closest ...
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How to join external tables with a shapefile's attribute table in QGIS?

I need to join a .csv table into an attribute table of a shapefile. I wanted to do this with QGIS and i don't seem to find anyway of doing it. I know that the mmqgis plugin does it, but my shapefile ...
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How to join attributes from nearest point in QGIS?

I have two layers with points, call them A and B, each with different attributes. For each point in A I want to join all the attributes from the nearest point in B. Ideally this would also include ...
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How to join multiple records to single feature?

apologies for what I'm guessing is a really easy problem to solve. GIS user, not programmer here. I'm trying to create a join/relate in QGIS where I have a shapefile of buildings and to that I would ...
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Join non-spatial CSV to spatial data in QGIS

I have a csv which has postcode data in a field, but it is non-spatial e.g. no Easting and Northing. I have a shapefile with postcode in a field and some additional data. I want to join the csv with ...