then use the "random points" tool in the vector menu. On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 10:43 -0700, John Bryant wrote: > Exactly my problem. I have a poly shapefile with some very irregular > polygons, I want to create a point dataset where each point is inside > exactly one polygon, and each polygon contains exactly one point. > > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Giovanni Manghi > <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
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