Re: [Qgis-user] Crash: merge shapefiles

2013-07-06 Thread Filipe Dias
Merge shapes from SAGA GIS (which can be used via Sextante) is quite fast, even with large shapefiles. On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Giovanni Manghi giovanni.man...@faunalia.pt wrote: Hi, As I've got loads of shapefiles, to define the .prj for each is not realistic

Re: [Qgis-user] Crash: merge shapefiles

2013-07-05 Thread Hugo
Hi Jonathan, You can use ogr2ogr to recursively create those PRJ files. You will need to make a bash script or bat file (depending on your platform of choice) that can read all your input shapefiles from a folder and execute the following command for each one of those: ogr2ogr -a_srs EPSG:27700

Re: [Qgis-user] Crash: merge shapefiles

2013-07-05 Thread Giovanni Manghi
Hi, As I've got loads of shapefiles, to define the .prj for each is not realistic (VectorDataManagement ToolsDefine Current Projection). I've looked for a bulk process to create these but without luck Do I need prj files if so, how can I create a load of them? in QGIS master you can use