I'm a recent QGIS user. I have a shapefile A with a series of polygons indicating land use of an urban region (urbanised areas). Now I want to select them in relation to a second shapefile B with the polygons administrative areas (municipalities). In other words, if polygons of shapefile A are inside the boundaries of municipality X they should be selected, and so on.
I tried Select by Location, but only managed to select the parts of shapefile A that intersect the whole of shapefile B (however there are many municipalities/polygons in that layer).
Hope this is clear to you! Thanks.
[GIS] Select polygons by attribute belonging to another layer
qgisselectselect-by-location
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One way to achieve this is to first buffer your city polygon and then use the Spatial query plugin with intersect.
Adding a "within a distance of" option would be a nice extra for the Spatial query plugin.
Late answer but you can keep the features highlighted and see them in Print Composer...just not by using Identify Features (atleast not in QGIS 2.2). You have to select the features either manually or with a filter:
You can then see the highlighted features in your composer:
Lastly, you can then save it as an image or in this case as an .svg (bear in mind that the lines come out as chunky vectors):
Best Answer
Depending on your desired output you can utilize 2 features of the Select by location tool in QGIS (Vector > Research Tools > Select by Location). In the image below you will see the options for 'use selected features only' and 'modify current select by...'.
In your example, first select your desired municipality polygon (from Shapefile B - you can do this manually or through a query) and then select 'use selected features only' when selecting your land cover polygons (Shapefile A) using the Select by location tool. This will result in only those land cover polygons being selected for a single municipality.
If desired you can then append additional selections using the 'add to current selection' option.