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In the standard join attributes by locationfeature in QGIS 2.0/2.18, there are two options:

  • Take attributes first located feature
  • Take summary of intersecting features

Is there a function in QGIS that allows to take attributes of more than located feature?

That is, to get ALL qualitative values the polygons that intersect/overlap. With an attribute column for the value of the first located feature, another for the second located feature, etc. This should work in cases where located features can overlap (e.g. species habitat polygons where more than one species can occupy the same location) but the original polygon onto which we want attributes of the second layer has spatially separate polygons (e.g. watersheds from which we want to know which species are present).

In my case here: I am working with one polygon shapefile from which I want to obtain the attributes for another polygon shapefile. According to the output from the summary of intersecting features, there are a total of up to seven intersecting features for a given polygon in the file I want to join to.

It seems that it is not possible in QGIS given the comments but it would be good to confirm. I may make a feature request.

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  • What are your layers? Are they all polygons?
    – jcarlson
    Commented Feb 7, 2018 at 4:28
  • Yes they are all polygons.
    – kl-higgins
    Commented Feb 7, 2018 at 13:21
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    I'm not aware of a tool to do that, but I've used pyqgis to produce those results.
    – artwork21
    Commented Feb 7, 2018 at 13:57
  • Probably Virtual Layers is your best shot.
    – Alexandre Neto
    Commented Feb 8, 2018 at 17:23
  • A workaround would be to convert the species habitat polygon layer into non-overlapping polygons, with a separate column for the attributes of each species. Not a very elegant solution, though.
    – csk
    Commented Feb 8, 2018 at 18:11

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It is now part of the standard options in QGIS 3.0 to join to more more than located feature. Many thanks to the developers that added this feature in the new release.

In the French version, the options under Joindre les attributs par localisation:

-Type de jointure

-Créez une entité distincte pour chaque entité située

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    Please edit to add text in English version for users.
    – kl-higgins
    Commented Jun 26, 2018 at 14:18
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I would suggest a clip operation, with the ID/some unique number of source polygon.

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  • Could you please expand upon your answer? As far as I know, a clip operation changes the original features -- a spatial join of attributes keeps the geometry of the features. My question aimed to keep the original watershed polygons while adding species information. Unless you can add more detail, your answer is off-topic, particularly since the issue was resolved with the newest release of QGIS 3.-
    – kl-higgins
    Commented Apr 23, 2019 at 12:27

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