Hi, the centroid is the barycenter of geometric shape, so it can be very well outside it.
cheers -- Giovanni -- On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 10:33 -0700, John Bryant wrote: > Relative newbie question alert. > > Is there a way in QGIS to create "centroids" for a polygon shapefile > where the points are guaranteed to be inside the polygon? I've had a > look through the plugins and nothing is jumping out at me. > > Thanks > John Bryant > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
