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
• Changing vector layer geometry
• Changing a vector layer feature's attribute
• Removing data from a vector layer
• Deleting vector layer feature's attributes
• Reprojecting a vector layer
• Converting a shapefile to KML or GeoJSON
• Merging shapefiles
• Splitting a shapefile
• Generalizing a vector layer
• Dissolving vector features
• Performing a union on vector shapes
• Rasterizing a vector layer
• Exporting a layer to the GeoPackage format