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QGIS Quick Start Guide
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QGIS Quick Start Guide

by Andrew Cutts
January 2019
Beginner
164 pages
3h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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Converting into vectors

Reclassifying rasters is useful for many visualization and processing workflows but also useful for converting data into vectors. From the Raster menu, select Conversion | Polygonize (Raster to Vector), which will open the Raster to Vector tool. Save the Vectorized layer as a new GeoPackage layer called vectorised_terrains.gpkg as shown in the following screenshot:

Polygonize tool

This will take a little while to run as the raster is quite complex. Once finished, you'll have a vector layer that will look similar to the following screenshot:

The resulting vector layer created from the conditional raster

The newly created ...

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