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I am new to GIS and hope this is not too basic. I am using QGIS.

Say I have two shapefiles: SHP1, with attributes allocated to municipalities, and another shapefile I built from a wkt file, SHP2, which is an orthogonal 60 by 60 grid.

I wish to do the following: add an attribute column to SHP which reflects the weighted average of an attribute from the underlying SHP1.

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  • Will your column have the same weighted value for each row? Also, is there a common attribute between the shapefiles you can use to join them? Or were you hoping to do a spatial join where the connection is location, rather than attributes?
    – Baltok
    Commented Feb 6, 2013 at 19:29
  • you speak of weighted average. Weighted by what? Do you already calculated this attribute?
    – Curlew
    Commented Feb 6, 2013 at 19:31
  • hello, the average for each cell should be an attrabitue from the underlying shapefile, weighted by the respective area of each attribute present in the cell.
    – Alex Caseiro
    Commented Feb 8, 2013 at 10:01
  • An image might be more likely to better explain what I intend to do: s7.postimage.org/44ji3ya5n/grelha.jpg Purple lines delimitate municipalities. Each municipality has an attribute (a real number). What I wish to do is to get the value of that attribute with the space definition of the green grid. For a cell over only one municipality, it will be the value from that municipality. For a cell lying over parcels of different municipalities, the value shall be an average of the underliying municipalities, weighted by the respective municipalities areas. I hope I can get help. Many thanks.
    – Alex Caseiro
    Commented Feb 8, 2013 at 15:49

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