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Create centroids from polygons

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Create centroids from polygons

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- [Instructor] The geometric center of an object is the centroid. Centroid points are useful for labeling features since they already contain the attributes of the parent geometry. With centroid points, you can then move them around to make a more effective location for that label. Let's add the parcels to our current map. I'll drag and drop the parcel's shape in. I'm going to alter the transparency to about 25%. There we are, there's our parcels. And I'm going to add centroids to this. I'm actually going to generate a brand new layer and a brand new file that contain the points that are the centroids of each of these parcels. Under Vector, Geometry Tools, we're going to choose Centroids. It already picks parcels and you can see what coordinate system it's in. We're going to change the centroid layer. We're going to save it to file. Just put it on our desktop. We'll just call it Parcel Centroids. Like that.…

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