QGIS: Split Multi-field Shapefiles
DESCRIPTION
Sometimes you have a shapefile with many fields in it. GeoPard supports .shp per field boundary upload. So, to upload such a file you need to split it into many shapefiles, you can do the following in a free QGIS program.
1 - Initial file consists of 2 polygons
2 - Toggle editing on the layer
3 - Choose the Split vector layer option
4 - Choose a Layer and Attribute
a layer (file) to split
a unique attribute based on which split will happen
Output directory (should be created in advance)
Advanced Parameters - Choose shp as the Output file format
5 - Click run and go to the Output directory folder. New files should be created. One file per polygon (field)
6. If created files are .gpkg drag & drop them into qgis and resave them one by one into the .shp format
Right click >Export>Save features as>
1. Format ESRI shapefile
2. Select the path and file name
3. Uncheck unnecessary attributes
Important note -
Slash / or Backslash \ can break the creation of files (and some other special characters). Please, remove or edit them in case of error.
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