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I created a polygon which covers a park. But I want to distinguish some small buildings located inside the park. Consequently, I want to distinguish them and use them as independent patches inside the original polygon. I used to do it the "Add ring" function in the QGIS 2.2.

But I don't know, how can fill those empty holes, which were resulted. I tried the "Fill rings" options (in QGIS 2.2), but I was not lucky with it.

Does anybody have an idea, how can I fix this problem?

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  • It might be useful for future analysis and styling purposes to have your park boundaries and buildings on separate layers.
    – SAnderka
    Mar 13, 2014 at 11:42

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I can see to ways of doing this:

Method 1:

Use add ring to cut the holes you need;

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In the Settings > snapping options check the avoid intersection for that particular layer;

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Use add feature, and draw a polygon around your ring or rings;

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The new feature will take the shape of the hole.

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Method 2:

  1. Use the new 2.2 fill ring digitizing tool, and directly cut the rings on your original polygons and insert the new feature attributes.

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This tool will automatically cut and fill the holes.

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  • Thank you, Alexandre Neto! The 2nd method was the solution for my problem!
    – Imre Majláth
    Mar 13, 2014 at 14:12
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    I would accept your answer, Alexandre, but I don' know how can I do it (I am a new user). I can find no options for acceptance. ?
    – Imre Majláth
    Mar 17, 2014 at 15:06
  • You should have a check mark on the top left corner of my answer. But no worries. I'm glad the answer was useful. Maybe you will be able to accept the answer when you a have a few more points.
    – Alexandre Neto
    Mar 17, 2014 at 16:40
  • It works but it is rather time consuming and manual...
    – WAF
    Mar 17, 2016 at 15:04
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    @WAF - In the more recent version of QGIS (and the Processing plugin in particular), there is the Fill holes tool which automatically fills rings/holes :)
    – Joseph
    Mar 17, 2016 at 15:41

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