[GIS] How to Join Attributes by Location in QGIS 1.8.0

Question

I have a points layer with site attributes and a polygon layer with region attributes. I'd like to join the names of the regions to the point site locations using QGIS 1.8.0., on Windows XP. However, I keep generating an empty shapefile, with no records, but the polygon_region's field names are appended to the end of the points within the empty shapefile. I'm using the default settings for the "Join Attributes by Location" tool. The tool's progress bar indicator seems to advance forward to about 20% complete, then it instantly completes. I'm thinking that it's only processing the header of the shapefile then prematurely "completing"

Answer 1

You may try Hub Distance algorithm in the mmqgis plugin instead. I was facing the similar problem as yours. But then I used mmqgis and this solved the problem for me.