Hi all, I hope that somebody can help me with the following issue.

Currently I have a SVG with a map of a country with all of its municipalities. Each municipality is a closed path. My goal is to turn this file into a polygon shapefile to use in QGIS.
My plan was to save the SVG as a DXF in Inkscape. With QGIS I can then convert this to a shapefile and convert lines into polygons.

My problem right now, is that in the DXF Inkscape generates, all the nodes of a path are separate entities.

Ideally, each closed path would be one entity. Is that at all possible? Is there something I can do in Inkscape to achieve that?

This might give you some usefull insights: http://inkscape-forum.andreas-s.net/topic/1209992

If you knew al of this already, then... well, then don't ask me

Thanks for the link. I had not read that particular discussion!