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I have a shapefile that contains different levels for food security. On top of that, I have mapped points for certain office locations. This is shown below. enter image description here

The country shapefile is extremely simplistic--the only information it contains are values for the food security index (values 1-5). Because of this, I am unable to perform any kind of spatial join.

I want to single out WHICH points exist in each different value, so I don't think point-in-polygon analysis is sufficient (as far as I can tell, this only gives me certain counts, not which points fall in each polygon).

What I've managed to do is select each food security value from the attribute table and then manually clip the point locations to each one. This is a bit clunky though, as I'm looking to do this for many countries. Is there a tool to achieve this more quickly?

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    You should be able to use the 'Vector > Data Management > Join attributes by location' tool - that will give each point the attribute of each food security polygon it falls within. It is a spatial join...
    – DPSSpatial_BoycottingGISSE
    Nov 11, 2015 at 23:23
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    You are able to do a spatial join because the polygon itself contains the spatial information. The other attributes are not needed for this.
    – bennos
    Nov 12, 2015 at 8:15
  • @mapBaker, thank you! I was only familiar with table joins, but this is a very useful (and obvious!) tool. Much appreciated. :)
    – Lauren
    Nov 12, 2015 at 18:22
  • @Lauren great! Good luck!
    – DPSSpatial_BoycottingGISSE
    Nov 12, 2015 at 19:26

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As mapBaker pointed out, this feature is located in Vector > Data Management Tools > Join Attributes by Location. Input appropriate fields, and voila. :)

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