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I am creating my own dataset for landuse classification. I have four different shapefiles for 4 different categories, forest, water, park and buildings. All these shapefiles contain polygon geometries of various sizes of respective categories.

I want to create shapefile of each category which contains points instead of polygons. For example, my forest shapefile contains 10 polygons and i want to create another shapefile for the forest, which will contain 100 or more points. Obviously these points should lie within these polygons.

I don't want to manually select the points which will be quite cumbersome given the no of shapes and points.

I would like to know any automatic method using QGIS.

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    Did you have a look at the "Random point inside polygons", "point along geometry", or "extract vertices" tool in the processing toolbox , if yes could you elaborate on how they don't fit your need ? – J.R Oct 2 '19 at 12:52
  • No, I was not aware about these tools. They sounds like exactly what I need. I will check them and let you know. Thanks. – Hariom Ahlawat Oct 2 '19 at 13:05
  • Thanks, "random point inside geometry" tool in QGIS did the work. Cheers! – Hariom Ahlawat Oct 2 '19 at 14:55
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As mentioned by J,R. in comments, "random point inside geometry" tool in the processing toolbox of QGIS did the work.

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  • Thanks, I was not able to accept it before. May be it take some hours before one can do that. – Hariom Ahlawat Oct 10 '19 at 16:14

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