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I applied the Vector>Geoverarbeitungswerkzeuge>Auflösen (Dissolve) on a zoning plan (see picture zoning plan). I used the attribute village name as the dissolving criteria. The resulting geometry for the village (yellow colored) is sprinkled with small polygons or also larger polygons are not dissolved (see picture sprinkled geometry). In the attribute table the information is in one row.

Are there any approaches to obviate this? Changing any settings? I am using QGIS 1.7.2-Wroclaw.

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    Well, what does the attribute table say after selection of those slivers? Most likely they have another attribute than the village name. Maybe another partial dissolve, the "Eliminate sliver polygons"-tool or manual selection and deletion will get rid of these.
    – Curlew
    Commented Jan 19, 2013 at 11:39
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    Looks like topological problems to me...
    – markusN
    Commented Jan 21, 2013 at 22:36

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This is undoubtedly a topology problem with your data.

I would recommend updating to the latest version of QGIS, this currently being 2.8.2 and running the Topology Checker (go to "Vector" tab) on all vector datasets concerned before ever running Dissolve process. This will identify erroneous topology which will then need to be manually rectified before Dissolve.

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