I have county data in which the "FIP"
s (actually State "FIP"
s and County "FIP"
s combined). I have data imported as CSV with the sames "FIP"
s data titled 'STCounty'. However, the shapefile "FIP"
s is listed as a Real and the CSV came in as an Integer and the Join function does not seem to work. The drop boxes are greyed out/empty.
So the bigger questions is how do you change the attribute type in a table?
I tried to create a new column in the shapefile (county data) and set it to an integer and then multiply the "FIP"
s*1, but got a column full of NULL
.
I am new to QGIS and have a lot of experience in MapInfo, so the join concept is not new to me, just the syntax in QGIS.