SPATIAL JOINS USING

PLUGIN
PERFORMING SPATIAL JOINS

Spatial Join is a classic GIS problem - transferring

attributes from one layer to another based on their spatial
relationship. In QGIS, this functionality is available
through the Join Attributes by Location tool.

• Target vector layer is what you want added to. Join vector
layer is the map you want to take the data from.
• Select Take attributes of first located feature .
• Browse to where you want to save the output shapefile
and click OK. When it asks if you want to add it to the
current display, select Yes.
Select Menu Plugins > Manage and Install Plugins.
Search for and install two programs: refFunctions and spatialJoin.
Select Menu Plugins > spatialJoin.
Target Layer is the shapefile you want to add data to (we're adding the
names). Spatial join type should be within but there are many other
options to play with in the future like overlaps or nearest.
Then select the columns you want brought over from the Layer to Join,
select Dynamic join and then click OK.
A new layer was not created. Instead the data was added to the
layer targeted. Right click and Open Attribute Table
Save as a .CSV.

Right click and select Save As Spatial Join.CSV

Exercise: Spatial Join

Using your LGU’s data perform

Spatial Join.