Re: [Qgis-user] Merging Shapefiles on Top of Each Other

2015-06-23 Thread David Fawcett
Tom,

I don't know anything about the software that you are using to render the
features, but here is a trick that I used to use with Mapserver.  Shapefile
features are generally rendered in the order that they are stored in the
file(s).

You may want to try sorting the features so that the sectors are rendered
before the roads, this would put the roads on top of the sectors.

Here is a link to the sortshp utility, but I don't think that you want to
install MapServer just for this utility:
http://mapserver.org/utilities/sortshp.html (of course if you are using
OSGEO4W, it is easy to install)

You can also probably do this pretty easily using a SQL snippet and OGR:
http://www.gdal.org/ogr_sql.html  It may also be pretty simple in QGIS.

David.





On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Tom Lennon tolen...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Tom
 I betting that your merged file has NULL in the color-item you used for
 all polygons from the roads source.
 If that is so you could try changing the NULL color-item to a value not
 included in the valid sectors color-item.
 Then go to properties  style and click CLASSIFY to get the new color-item
 included.
 Right click the color swatch in the legend, choose change transparency and
 make the color 99 percent transparent.
 You can also change the outline color to be different to that of the
 sector outline.
 Hope it works.

 Regards

 On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 6:19 AM, DelazJ del...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,
 Tom, so you have both roads and sectors in same shapefile.
 To show all of them, unless you use rule-based renderer style, in
 categorized style, they should have a common field filled.
 Once you have set the colors for all, at the right bottom of the dialog,
 you have an Advanced button. Use symbol level option to set which color
 will be on top of which one...

 Regards,

 2015-06-22 10:33 GMT+02:00 Paulo van Breugel p.vanbreu...@gmail.com:

 If you want one shapefile only, you might want a topologically correct
 file, i.e., no overlapping polygons / boundaries. These could be created
 using the v.clean function (a GRASS function available in the QGIS toolbox).


 On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Tom Faro 
 tom.f...@zenith-insurance.co.uk wrote:

  Hi David,

 My apologies to both you and Matt as I should have been clearer. My aim
 is to merge them both so that I can use this shapefile in another piece of
 software (which will only accept one shapefile to be viewed at a time).
 However, what you are both suggesting does work perfectly if I want to stay
 in QGIS, so thanks very much for your help!

 Regards,
 Tom



Tom Faro

 Pricing Analyst

 Zenith Insurance Management UK Ltd



 E-Mail :

 tom.f...@zenith-insurance.co.uk

 Web :

 www.zenith-insurance.co.uk

 Address :

 Chester House, Harlands Road, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, RH16 1LR



 Zenith Insurance Management UK Limited, a part of the Markerstudy Group
 of Companies

  *From:* David Fawcett [mailto:david.fawc...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* 19 June 2015 15:06
 *To:* Matt Boyd
 *Cc:* Tom Faro; qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org
 *Subject:* Re: [Qgis-user] Merging Shapefiles on Top of Each Other



 Tom,

 As Matt says, you don't need to combine the roads and sectors into the
 same dataset to display them together in QGIS.  You can add both separate
 datasets to a map and you can order the layers so that the roads are drawn
 after the polygons.

 David.



 On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Matt Boyd mattsli...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Hi Tom,

 Have a look at some of the QGIS tutorials (google or the QGIS website
 shoudl have some). It sounds like you just need to overlay the layers in
 the correct order, merge generally means something else.

 You can drag / move the layers around / up / down in the layers window.
 Generally from top to bottom, points, lines, polygons. There is also an
 option to give each layer a level of transparency.



 On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Tom Faro 
 tom.f...@zenith-insurance.co.uk wrote:



 I have been having some trouble with merging two shapefiles – one is a
 map of all sectors in the UK and one is a map of all motorways in the UK. I
 have successfully merged them by putting them both as polygons. However,
 when I fill in the sectors with different colours the road map disappears.
 The same happens when I use the same shapefile in other software.



 Is it possible to merge them so that the roads are always on top? Any
 Help with this matter would be greatly appreciated.

 Many Thanks,
 Tom





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Re: [Qgis-user] Merging Shapefiles on Top of Each Other

2015-06-22 Thread Tom Lennon
Hi Tom
I betting that your merged file has NULL in the color-item you used for all
polygons from the roads source.
If that is so you could try changing the NULL color-item to a value not
included in the valid sectors color-item.
Then go to properties  style and click CLASSIFY to get the new color-item
included.
Right click the color swatch in the legend, choose change transparency and
make the color 99 percent transparent.
You can also change the outline color to be different to that of the sector
outline.
Hope it works.

Regards

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 6:19 AM, DelazJ del...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,
 Tom, so you have both roads and sectors in same shapefile.
 To show all of them, unless you use rule-based renderer style, in
 categorized style, they should have a common field filled.
 Once you have set the colors for all, at the right bottom of the dialog,
 you have an Advanced button. Use symbol level option to set which color
 will be on top of which one...

 Regards,

 2015-06-22 10:33 GMT+02:00 Paulo van Breugel p.vanbreu...@gmail.com:

 If you want one shapefile only, you might want a topologically correct
 file, i.e., no overlapping polygons / boundaries. These could be created
 using the v.clean function (a GRASS function available in the QGIS toolbox).


 On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Tom Faro 
 tom.f...@zenith-insurance.co.uk wrote:

  Hi David,

 My apologies to both you and Matt as I should have been clearer. My aim
 is to merge them both so that I can use this shapefile in another piece of
 software (which will only accept one shapefile to be viewed at a time).
 However, what you are both suggesting does work perfectly if I want to stay
 in QGIS, so thanks very much for your help!

 Regards,
 Tom



Tom Faro

 Pricing Analyst

 Zenith Insurance Management UK Ltd



 E-Mail :

 tom.f...@zenith-insurance.co.uk

 Web :

 www.zenith-insurance.co.uk

 Address :

 Chester House, Harlands Road, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, RH16 1LR



 Zenith Insurance Management UK Limited, a part of the Markerstudy Group
 of Companies

  *From:* David Fawcett [mailto:david.fawc...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* 19 June 2015 15:06
 *To:* Matt Boyd
 *Cc:* Tom Faro; qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org
 *Subject:* Re: [Qgis-user] Merging Shapefiles on Top of Each Other



 Tom,

 As Matt says, you don't need to combine the roads and sectors into the
 same dataset to display them together in QGIS.  You can add both separate
 datasets to a map and you can order the layers so that the roads are drawn
 after the polygons.

 David.



 On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Matt Boyd mattsli...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Hi Tom,

 Have a look at some of the QGIS tutorials (google or the QGIS website
 shoudl have some). It sounds like you just need to overlay the layers in
 the correct order, merge generally means something else.

 You can drag / move the layers around / up / down in the layers window.
 Generally from top to bottom, points, lines, polygons. There is also an
 option to give each layer a level of transparency.



 On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Tom Faro 
 tom.f...@zenith-insurance.co.uk wrote:



 I have been having some trouble with merging two shapefiles – one is a
 map of all sectors in the UK and one is a map of all motorways in the UK. I
 have successfully merged them by putting them both as polygons. However,
 when I fill in the sectors with different colours the road map disappears.
 The same happens when I use the same shapefile in other software.



 Is it possible to merge them so that the roads are always on top? Any
 Help with this matter would be greatly appreciated.

 Many Thanks,
 Tom





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 Zenith Insurance Management UK Limited (Registered No. 5309111). Link
 Underwriting Agency Limited (Registered No. 4227586). Both companies are
 registered in England  Wales at Chester House, Harlands Road, Haywards
 Heath, West Sussex, RH16 1LR. Zenith Insurance Management UK Limited is
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Re: [Qgis-user] Merging Shapefiles on Top of Each Other

2015-06-22 Thread Paulo van Breugel
If you want one shapefile only, you might want a topologically correct
file, i.e., no overlapping polygons / boundaries. These could be created
using the v.clean function (a GRASS function available in the QGIS toolbox).


On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Tom Faro tom.f...@zenith-insurance.co.uk
wrote:

  Hi David,

 My apologies to both you and Matt as I should have been clearer. My aim is
 to merge them both so that I can use this shapefile in another piece of
 software (which will only accept one shapefile to be viewed at a time).
 However, what you are both suggesting does work perfectly if I want to stay
 in QGIS, so thanks very much for your help!

 Regards,
 Tom



Tom Faro

 Pricing Analyst

 Zenith Insurance Management UK Ltd



 E-Mail :

 tom.f...@zenith-insurance.co.uk

 Web :

 www.zenith-insurance.co.uk

 Address :

 Chester House, Harlands Road, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, RH16 1LR



 Zenith Insurance Management UK Limited, a part of the Markerstudy Group of
 Companies

  *From:* David Fawcett [mailto:david.fawc...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* 19 June 2015 15:06
 *To:* Matt Boyd
 *Cc:* Tom Faro; qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org
 *Subject:* Re: [Qgis-user] Merging Shapefiles on Top of Each Other



 Tom,

 As Matt says, you don't need to combine the roads and sectors into the
 same dataset to display them together in QGIS.  You can add both separate
 datasets to a map and you can order the layers so that the roads are drawn
 after the polygons.

 David.



 On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Matt Boyd mattsli...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Tom,

 Have a look at some of the QGIS tutorials (google or the QGIS website
 shoudl have some). It sounds like you just need to overlay the layers in
 the correct order, merge generally means something else.

 You can drag / move the layers around / up / down in the layers window.
 Generally from top to bottom, points, lines, polygons. There is also an
 option to give each layer a level of transparency.



 On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Tom Faro tom.f...@zenith-insurance.co.uk
 wrote:



 I have been having some trouble with merging two shapefiles – one is a map
 of all sectors in the UK and one is a map of all motorways in the UK. I
 have successfully merged them by putting them both as polygons. However,
 when I fill in the sectors with different colours the road map disappears.
 The same happens when I use the same shapefile in other software.



 Is it possible to merge them so that the roads are always on top? Any Help
 with this matter would be greatly appreciated.

 Many Thanks,
 Tom





 [image: Environment]
--

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 Zenith Insurance plc and is not an Agent of Zenith Insurance plc. Zenith
 and Link are the European brands of the Markerstudy Group of Companies.

 Zenith Insurance Management UK Limited (Registered No. 5309111). Link
 Underwriting Agency Limited (Registered No. 4227586). Both companies are
 registered in England  Wales at Chester House, Harlands Road, Haywards
 Heath, West Sussex, RH16 1LR. Zenith Insurance Management UK Limited is
 authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (No. 429279).
 For security and training purposes, all calls may be monitored or recorded.

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Re: [Qgis-user] Merging Shapefiles on Top of Each Other

2015-06-22 Thread Tom Faro
Hi David,

My apologies to both you and Matt as I should have been clearer. My aim is to 
merge them both so that I can use this shapefile in another piece of software 
(which will only accept one shapefile to be viewed at a time). However, what 
you are both suggesting does work perfectly if I want to stay in QGIS, so 
thanks very much for your help!

Regards,
Tom

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Pricing Analyst

Zenith Insurance Management UK Ltd


E-Mail :

tom.f...@zenith-insurance.co.uk

Web :

www.zenith-insurance.co.ukhttp://www.zenith-insurance.co.uk

Address :

Chester House, Harlands Road, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, RH16 1LR


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From: David Fawcett [mailto:david.fawc...@gmail.com]
Sent: 19 June 2015 15:06
To: Matt Boyd
Cc: Tom Faro; qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Merging Shapefiles on Top of Each Other

Tom,
As Matt says, you don't need to combine the roads and sectors into the same 
dataset to display them together in QGIS.  You can add both separate datasets 
to a map and you can order the layers so that the roads are drawn after the 
polygons.
David.

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Matt Boyd 
mattsli...@gmail.commailto:mattsli...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Tom,
Have a look at some of the QGIS tutorials (google or the QGIS website shoudl 
have some). It sounds like you just need to overlay the layers in the correct 
order, merge generally means something else.
You can drag / move the layers around / up / down in the layers window. 
Generally from top to bottom, points, lines, polygons. There is also an option 
to give each layer a level of transparency.

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Tom Faro 
tom.f...@zenith-insurance.co.ukmailto:tom.f...@zenith-insurance.co.uk wrote:

I have been having some trouble with merging two shapefiles – one is a map of 
all sectors in the UK and one is a map of all motorways in the UK. I have 
successfully merged them by putting them both as polygons. However, when I fill 
in the sectors with different colours the road map disappears. The same happens 
when I use the same shapefile in other software.

Is it possible to merge them so that the roads are always on top? Any Help with 
this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Many Thanks,
Tom


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Underwriting Agency Limited (Registered No. 4227586). Both companies are 
registered in England  Wales at Chester House, Harlands Road, Haywards Heath, 
West Sussex, RH16 1LR. Zenith Insurance Management UK Limited is authorised and 
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Re: [Qgis-user] Merging Shapefiles on Top of Each Other

2015-06-22 Thread DelazJ
Hi,
Tom, so you have both roads and sectors in same shapefile.
To show all of them, unless you use rule-based renderer style, in
categorized style, they should have a common field filled.
Once you have set the colors for all, at the right bottom of the dialog,
you have an Advanced button. Use symbol level option to set which color
will be on top of which one...

Regards,

2015-06-22 10:33 GMT+02:00 Paulo van Breugel p.vanbreu...@gmail.com:

 If you want one shapefile only, you might want a topologically correct
 file, i.e., no overlapping polygons / boundaries. These could be created
 using the v.clean function (a GRASS function available in the QGIS toolbox).


 On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Tom Faro tom.f...@zenith-insurance.co.uk
  wrote:

  Hi David,

 My apologies to both you and Matt as I should have been clearer. My aim
 is to merge them both so that I can use this shapefile in another piece of
 software (which will only accept one shapefile to be viewed at a time).
 However, what you are both suggesting does work perfectly if I want to stay
 in QGIS, so thanks very much for your help!

 Regards,
 Tom



Tom Faro

 Pricing Analyst

 Zenith Insurance Management UK Ltd



 E-Mail :

 tom.f...@zenith-insurance.co.uk

 Web :

 www.zenith-insurance.co.uk

 Address :

 Chester House, Harlands Road, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, RH16 1LR



 Zenith Insurance Management UK Limited, a part of the Markerstudy Group
 of Companies

  *From:* David Fawcett [mailto:david.fawc...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* 19 June 2015 15:06
 *To:* Matt Boyd
 *Cc:* Tom Faro; qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org
 *Subject:* Re: [Qgis-user] Merging Shapefiles on Top of Each Other



 Tom,

 As Matt says, you don't need to combine the roads and sectors into the
 same dataset to display them together in QGIS.  You can add both separate
 datasets to a map and you can order the layers so that the roads are drawn
 after the polygons.

 David.



 On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Matt Boyd mattsli...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Tom,

 Have a look at some of the QGIS tutorials (google or the QGIS website
 shoudl have some). It sounds like you just need to overlay the layers in
 the correct order, merge generally means something else.

 You can drag / move the layers around / up / down in the layers window.
 Generally from top to bottom, points, lines, polygons. There is also an
 option to give each layer a level of transparency.



 On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Tom Faro 
 tom.f...@zenith-insurance.co.uk wrote:



 I have been having some trouble with merging two shapefiles – one is a
 map of all sectors in the UK and one is a map of all motorways in the UK. I
 have successfully merged them by putting them both as polygons. However,
 when I fill in the sectors with different colours the road map disappears.
 The same happens when I use the same shapefile in other software.



 Is it possible to merge them so that the roads are always on top? Any
 Help with this matter would be greatly appreciated.

 Many Thanks,
 Tom





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 Underwriting Agency Limited (Registered No. 4227586). Both companies are
 registered in England  Wales at Chester House, Harlands Road, Haywards
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 authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (No. 429279).
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Re: [Qgis-user] Merging Shapefiles on Top of Each Other

2015-06-19 Thread David Fawcett
Tom,

As Matt says, you don't need to combine the roads and sectors into the same
dataset to display them together in QGIS.  You can add both separate
datasets to a map and you can order the layers so that the roads are drawn
after the polygons.

David.

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Matt Boyd mattsli...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Tom,
 Have a look at some of the QGIS tutorials (google or the QGIS website
 shoudl have some). It sounds like you just need to overlay the layers in
 the correct order, merge generally means something else.
 You can drag / move the layers around / up / down in the layers window.
 Generally from top to bottom, points, lines, polygons. There is also an
 option to give each layer a level of transparency.

 On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Tom Faro tom.f...@zenith-insurance.co.uk
  wrote:



  I have been having some trouble with merging two shapefiles – one is a
 map of all sectors in the UK and one is a map of all motorways in the UK. I
 have successfully merged them by putting them both as polygons. However,
 when I fill in the sectors with different colours the road map disappears.
 The same happens when I use the same shapefile in other software.



 Is it possible to merge them so that the roads are always on top? Any
 Help with this matter would be greatly appreciated.

 Many Thanks,
 Tom




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 to Zenith Insurance plc and is not an Agent of Zenith Insurance plc. Zenith
 and Link are the European brands of the Markerstudy Group of Companies.

 Zenith Insurance Management UK Limited (Registered No. 5309111). Link
 Underwriting Agency Limited (Registered No. 4227586). Both companies are
 registered in England  Wales at Chester House, Harlands Road, Haywards
 Heath, West Sussex, RH16 1LR. Zenith Insurance Management UK Limited is
 authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (No. 429279).
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Re: [Qgis-user] Merging Shapefiles on Top of Each Other

2015-06-18 Thread Matt Boyd
Hi Tom,
Have a look at some of the QGIS tutorials (google or the QGIS website
shoudl have some). It sounds like you just need to overlay the layers in
the correct order, merge generally means something else.
You can drag / move the layers around / up / down in the layers window.
Generally from top to bottom, points, lines, polygons. There is also an
option to give each layer a level of transparency.

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Tom Faro tom.f...@zenith-insurance.co.uk
wrote:



  I have been having some trouble with merging two shapefiles – one is a
 map of all sectors in the UK and one is a map of all motorways in the UK. I
 have successfully merged them by putting them both as polygons. However,
 when I fill in the sectors with different colours the road map disappears.
 The same happens when I use the same shapefile in other software.



 Is it possible to merge them so that the roads are always on top? Any Help
 with this matter would be greatly appreciated.

 Many Thanks,
 Tom




 [image: Environment]
 --
 Zenith Insurance Management UK Limited is an appointed service provider to
 Zenith Insurance plc and is not an Agent of Zenith Insurance plc. Zenith
 and Link are the European brands of the Markerstudy Group of Companies.

 Zenith Insurance Management UK Limited (Registered No. 5309111). Link
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[Qgis-user] Merging Shapefiles on Top of Each Other

2015-06-18 Thread Tom Faro
I have been having some trouble with merging two shapefiles - one is a map of 
all sectors in the UK and one is a map of all motorways in the UK. I have 
successfully merged them by putting them both as polygons. However, when I fill 
in the sectors with different colours the road map disappears. The same happens 
when I use the same shapefile in other software.

Is it possible to merge them so that the roads are always on top? Any Help with 
this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Many Thanks,
Tom

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