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

2016-11-04 Thread Nyall Dawson
On 5 Nov 2016 12:13 PM, "Joe Lertola" wrote: > > 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.

[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