Chapter 3. Editing Vector Data
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Creating a vector layer in memory
- Adding a point feature to a vector layer
- Adding a line feature to a vector layer
- Adding a polygon feature to a vector layer
- Adding a set of attributes to a vector layer
- Adding a field to a vector layer
- Joining a shapefile attribute table to a CSV file
- Moving vector layer geometry
- Changing a vector layer attribute
- Deleting vector layer geometry
- Deleting a vector layer field
- Deleting vector layer attributes
- Reprojecting a vector layer
- Converting a shapefile to Keyhole Markup Language (KML)
- Merging shapefiles
- Splitting a shapefile
- Generalizing a vector layer
- Dissolving vector shapes
- Performing a union on vector shapes
- Rasterizing a vector layer
