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Words treated as data by a computer
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Updating text column of selected features in QGIS
Let's say I have a bunch of postcodes. After making a selection and having the records highlighted in the attribute table, how to update all of them and give them the same category?
In ArcGIS, after ...
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Adding text fields with more than 255 characters?
I'm working on a QGIS project where I have few shapefile layers with text fields. I would like to add whole paragraphs as descriptions to the text fields, however the fields are limited by their ...
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Sorting text column by numbers with letters
I have a text column. It's made up of the numbers 1, 2, 3 up to 1650, which are currently not in increasing order. However, it also includes text such as 520a, 639a, 639b, 639c. Sorting on increasing ...
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Getting ArcGIS to include leading zeros in text field
I am entering characters in a text field that is essentially a 5 number "ID". I need leading zeros to be included in the value, but every time I enter or calculate the field, the leading ...
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QGIS - is it possible to convert accented characters to regular ones in attribute table? [closed]
I have OSM dataset containing names with national characters (this is CSV export, but I have it in SHP):
osm_id,code,fclass,population,name,longitude,latitude
276645544,1003,village,221,Krč,14.248410,...
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QGIS Python API set label color based on attribute field
I'm trying to set the text label color and size based on the attribute table. I got the size setting correctly but not the color.
My current result looks like this (The symbol has been set to be ...
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Getting my expression to process the text in field
I am building an expression, whose function is to return True if a characteristic is selected.
The expression requires two arguments, the Feature and the name of the layer.
If I enter the name of the ...
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Methods for geotagging/displaying text documents
I'm wondering what methods folks are familiar with for geotagging/displaying text documents, or the text from a document.
For example, it's easy enough to geotag a photo and display it in ArcGIS or ...
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Getting text to center in a label expression
Is there an expression that can be entered in the label expression that will force text to center? Such as the ones used to change case/replace/etc.
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"No Root Node! Parsing Failed?" error when re-coding some text using QGIS Field Calculator
I am attempting to re-code some text data in the attribute table using the QGIS Field Calculator tool, but I keep getting an error message:
An Error occured while evaluating the calculation string: &...
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Using Arabic labels in QGIS
In QGIS 3.30 I am trying to render labels in Arabic. When I turn on the labels, the Arabic text appears mirrored compared to how it is correctly written in the attribute table.
Does anyone have any ...
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How to create multiple QGIS layers from multiple text files?
I have a few hundred txt files (each representing a line of a river bed profile) that I need to load as (point-) layers in QGIS. Partial example:
4504764.8331;5374251.3024;397.8871;2
4504764.7761;...
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Exporting attribute table to text file(.txt) in ModelBuilder
I'm having trouble exporting directly an ArcGIS attribute table to a text file (.txt) while I'm working in ModelBuilder. I tried the followings and none of them worked:
Copy Rows tool: I tried to add ...
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SVG trouble in QGIS
I am having some issues using some SVGs that I have created in Inkscape. I am trying to use them in QGIS but they're not displayed properly.
This: is how the SVG looks like in Inkscape and how it ...
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Creating transparent text (watermark) in ArcGIS for Desktop?
I am trying to insert a watermark into a map using ArcGIS. As you can see from the screenshot, I have the text in place, although I need to make the text transparent (e.g. 50% transparency). I used "...
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How to curve text in QGIS layouts
I am wondering if there is a way to curve text inserted as text boxes in QGIS print layout. I am familiar with how to curve layer labels. But in this case, I want to curve text that is not tied to any ...
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Line spacing at print composer
I'm using a text box in the print composer (QGIS 2.16). If I write more then one line, how can I set the line spacing between the lines?
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Change font size of all labels print composer
I have to print a map in A0 paper size and also in A3. First I completed the job for the A0 size map, then I duplicated the print composer and I am changing the fonts of attribute tables and label ...
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Adding letters, spaces, and removing parts of attribute string in QGIS
I have an attribute of the form:
12-06-065-03 W4M
and would like it in the following form:
LSD-12 SEC-06 TWP-065 RGE-03 MER-4
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Converting numerical categories to text label in QGIS
In QGIS I have a smallish dataset with around 8k cells in. Each cell has a number of attributes including a code for land surface cover (an integer between 0 and 12). I have a list of labels that go ...
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Writing ArcPy cursor results to text file?
I don't know how to write the result in a text file, can anyone help me?
import arcpy
rows = arcpy.SearchCursor("E:/Arcgis/lx.gdb/WuChangJieDaokou_onlyweight", "", "", "", "VEHICLEID A; TIME A")
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CSV text files loading error / crash in QGIS 2.18.8
I got a problem when I try to load tab-separated text files in the "Create a layer from the delimited text file" tab (that one with de comma symbol). After normally selecting the X and Y fields and ...
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Obtaining date data from layer name in QGIS
I have a column with name of the satellites image background (Landsat, Sentinel), in this name I have a date information into the text.
How do I extract the date data from this text?
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Write ogrinfo result to text file
I have obtained a desired value from a dataset using:
ogrinfo input.shp -dialect SQLite -sql "SELECT SUM(field) from input
The ogrinfo command prints the desired value via the command line when I ...
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OL3 the text is incorrectly aligned
Using OpenLayers3 I have observed an incorrect alignment of the text when styling the features of the Cluster source. Also the baseline of the text appears to be ignored.
The below code sample (or ...
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Changing the justification of legend symbol text set from "set labels from expression..." in QGIS
In QGIS, I have a polygon layer with several text column attributes. I am theming on one, but want the text of another column to show up in the legend. I have successfully populated the text column ...
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Сhanging pop-up font size in qgis2web
I have a lot of info in QGIS2WEB pop-ups and would like to make the font size smaller to make the text easier to read.
I have checked all exported files, and the only instance referencing the pop-ups ...
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Regular expression delimiter for text file in QGIS 3
I have a text file containing coordinates but also comment lines such as :
#file description
#description point 1
id1 X1 Y1 Z1
#description point 2
id2 X2 Y2 Z2
and I want to import this file in ...
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Create polygons per ID from txt file (ArcPy)
I am writing a script that can take a .txt file as input and as output has a shapefile containing polygons to be used in ArcMap. My input looks like this with points at each vertex of a polygon, and ...
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What is the best FME Transformer for Text search and replace in attribute fields
I have a number of feature classes which have fields containing text which has somehow become improperly encoded. The fields contain german text which should be either ä, ö, ü, ß but instead contains ...
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QGIS 2.14 Composer incorrectly renders svg text position
I just noticed that SVG rendering in composer since upgrade to QGIS 2.14 is incorrectly handling some text placement. I have an SVG compass rose, which was rendering fine before upgrading to 2.14 (...
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Can one convert text annotations to a layer in QGIS?
I know text annotations can be turned on & off with Ctrl+T... but is there any way to export them as a layer?
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Proper font size for each paper size for reader to be able to read names?
I am working on a project that I need to figure it out how or what font size for each paper size. There are 10 of them and two of them are in the same paper size. There is data frame I have set aside ...
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Override typographic ligatures in QGIS labels?
For one of my label layers I am using a font that contains typographic ligatures for certain letter pairs. If I increase the letter spacing in Layer Properties, the ligature is retained as a single ...
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QGIS find the CRS of a map grid with map_get
When mapping with QGIS I normally have the main map grid (typically an appropriate UTM zone) as the project CRS. I also often have a secondary grid with more subtle markings displaying as Lat Longs ...
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"Layer is not valid" error when importing UTM delimited text layer into QGIS
I'm trying to import a small delimited (tab separated) text into QGIS. The coordinates are in UTM format.
Sample data:
id
N
E
PT-001
7237229
146872
PT-002
7237230
146897
The first column contains ...
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Creating polygon from 2 txt files (Parent ID + Coordinates) using ArcPy?
I want to create polygons based on two separate text files:
the first one (as parents) lists the Polygon ID (ID_el) and three to four Points ID (IDpt1, IDpt2, IDpt3..)
the second contains the Points ...
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How to count text values
My issue is to count text values from vector layer. I got a layer with streets for one of administrative region and it's names in column. It looks like this
Id Street_name
XYZ
XYZ
ABC
XYZ . . .
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Splitting a string and extracting the numbers
I'm using QGIS and i have an attribute field that contains several compacted info such as "aaa1-bbb2-ccc3" and i want to extract those three different numbers into new fields .. so far i have managed ...
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Field calculator won't let me add numbers from an integer field into a text field
I'm trying to field calculate a text field & add digits to it from a 32 bit integer field, by using the expression "ID"+"Fiber Capa" in QGIS 3.28. But the error message
An ...
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How to Import the geometry/feature collection which is in GeoJSON format into Google Earth Engine?
I have a GeoJSON file. I have opened it in Sublime Text Editor
How can I import it in Google Earth Engine?
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What is the best plain text format for georeferenced raster data?
I have to translate satellite images in a file in .txt format or another, such as Excel or .csv, in which there are pixel values corresponding to (longitude,latitude) couples. What is the best file ...
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Setting image as font filling in QGIS
Is it possible to use an image as a label font filling to have a result like in the following examples with national flags?
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Drawing text, callouts, rectangles, etc in QGIS
In ArcGIS Desktop, you have a specific toolbar for adding text/ drawing rectangles, circles, ... / adding callouts (see screenshot), which I use very regularly.
However, I am switching to QGIS 3.4, ...
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Arrow shape with text in it
I have been trying to solve this for hours and I haven't found a way to do it. I am working with the print composer on QGIS 3.4 to design a map and I just want to add an arrow with some text inside, ...
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Add DXF text to shape as attribute
I have a DXF with text and I have a shapefile with some squares.
Is it possible, in QGIS, to add the text from the DXF to a new column in the shapefile?
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How Do I Open Grid Text Files?
I've received wind speed data in grid text format and I have no idea how to open it in QGIS. Please go easy on the computer jargon, I'm no computer scientist.
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OpenLayers 3 Style - text label with size not depending on scale
I try to label polygons from a WFS-Source with an attribute. This works fine, but my problem is that the size of this label is scale depending. It has the same size on every scale. But i want it to ...
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Shapefiles *.dbf data, encoding problem
I have to work with the Shapefiles, and all is fine except data in *.dbf
When I have first deserialized file, I have thought, that I'm doing smth wrong, but when any soft like (QGIS, SAGA, ESRI ...
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Exporting large txt file as point shapefile in QGIS
I have a large txt file with 10 million rows and 16 columns and I already have imported the table as a delimited text file in QGIS. In row 7 and row 8, the coordinates are stored (I also allocated x ...
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