Re: [Qgis-user] Joining data to a shape file by country name when the names don't match exactly

2016-11-06 Thread Joe Lertola
> console. Building a for al plugin may not be necessary. Have you tried the > vlookup function? It has a "close match algorithm " by default. That may > help. > Nicolas > > Le 5 nov. 2016 à 22:30, Joe Lertola [via OSGeo.org <http://osgeo.org/>] > <[hidden

Re: [Qgis-user] Joining data to a shape file by country name when the names don't match exactly

2016-11-05 Thread Joe Lertola
/osgeo.org/>] > <[hidden email] > a > écrit : > >> >> On 5 Nov 2016 12:13 PM, "Joe Lertola" <[hidden email] >> > wrote: >> > >> > Hello. >> > >> > Today I made a thematic map by joining a list of

[Qgis-user] Fwd: Joining data to a shape file by country name when the names don't match exactly

2016-11-04 Thread Joe Lertola
Hello. Today I made a thematic map by joining a list of data that had country names to a shape file of world countries. I had to spend a lot of time working in Excel to make my data names match the names in the shape file. A lot of them already matched but there were many that didn’t. For

Re: [Qgis-user] Dufour OSM import: success but no layer

2013-10-07 Thread Joe Lertola
I am also having trouble figuring out how to load OpenStreetMap data. I have not found the documentation for this feature. I first chose Vector/OpenStreetMap/Download Data and I got a file with a .osm extension. I then chose Vector/OpenStreetMap/Import Topology form XML. A window opened where

[Qgis-user] How to set lat/long boundaries for a map

2013-10-01 Thread Joe Lertola
Hello, I am very new to Qgis so I apologize if this is information I should have gotten from the documentation. But I have been looking for a while and have not found the answer. I downloaded a couple of tiles of elevation data from http://nationalmap.gov/viewer.html. I am able to bring them