QGIS: great features 1

Saturday, 21 March, 2015

Thought I’d kick off an occasional series of blog posts highlighting nice features in QGIS….. this is my go-to app for working with spatial data as it’s fast and reliable.

I’m currently completing work with my colleague Niels Anders on manipulating some digitised vector data. This works in Python and produces shapefile outputs - so QGIS is being used to view the data, manipulate the attribute table and symbolise some of the outputs for map production.

One of the processes I have to do is extract a sub-set of vector data in a shapefile and save it to a new one… so great feature number 1 is the “Paste features as” menu item. As the screenshot below shows I can automatically paste features to a new vector layer with the same projection as the QGIS project. Very handy and…. just makes life easier!

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