thank you all. i guess i was taking the instructions too literally, i wanted to see 'Merge Shapefiles to One...'
thanks again, mf From: Dave Marshall <43carn...@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2020 2:11 PM To: Mark Fogarty <m...@fogartyconsulting.com> Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] merge shapefiles into one Mark, I recently upgraded to 3.12 and didn't do anything extra to the standard upgrade but I do have the option - see below: Dave On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 at 19:07, Mark Fogarty <m...@fogartyconsulting.com <mailto:m...@fogartyconsulting.com> > wrote: hi. i'm new to the list and qgis, apologies if this has been asked. we're working with the us census tract files available from census.gov <http://census.gov> here: https://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles/index.php?year=2019 <https://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles/index.php?year=2019&layergroup=Census+Tracts> &layergroup =Census+Tracts they are published as 54 separate zip files, one per state. we would like to combine them into a single dataset. i found a lot of pages on the web that suggest using qgis for that purpose. they all start with Click on the Vector menu, Data Management tools, Merge Shapefiles to One... i just installed qgis 3.12.1, but my vector / data management tools menu doesn't have that option. has that tool been removed, or is there a plugin i need to install or maybe a different version? is that data already available in a combined format from somewhere, or is there a better way to do this? thanks _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org <mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
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