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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Judith,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">If you continue to have problems, then you might consider trying an older version of QGIS. Last year I bought new laptop to replace my old Win 7 desktop pc. Installed latest version of QGIS. Looked good, opened a new shape file layer and drew some lines. Had a devil of a time moving old points or adding points in between old points. Booted up the Win 7 pc and ran old version. Hooray, back to normal!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">-Dave <br></div><div><br></div>
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On Wednesday, March 2, 2022, 06:21:58 AM PST, Randal Hale <rjhale@northrivergeographic.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv3442759938"><div><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Good morning and welcome to the list: </p>
<br clear="none"><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">If you're going to bring a shapefile into QGIS do one of the three things: </p>
<ul type="disc"><li>Use the browser. It's like ArcCatalog and if you don't see it - right click in the toolbar section and activate it. It should appear somewhere on the edge and you can navigate to your data. </li><li>If you drag and drop your data into QGIS - just drag the shp. Not the prj or any of the other files. </li><li>Use the data source manager icon and add it using the vector tools. Just add the shp. it will grab whatever other files it needs. </li></ul>
<br clear="none"><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">QGIS won't lose/truncate your shapefiles. It will also open a ESRI File Based Database for viewing. You'll need to convert it to shapefile/geopackage to editing. </p>
<br clear="none"><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Join the bigger QGIS User list for more news. QGIS (look in the documentation) has a free tutorial you can walk through. Email the list. Dig through youtube - the QGIS us group did a conference two years ago and there are some workshops up there for free. </p>
<br clear="none"><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7v5qfJYWxA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7v5qfJYWxA</a></p>
<br clear="none"><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Enjoy - yell if you get stuck. </p>
<br clear="none"><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Randy</p>
<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div id="yiv3442759938yqtfd93093" class="yiv3442759938yqt4111938736"><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">On Wednesday, March 2, 2022 12:00:38 AM EST Judith Kerman wrote:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> I use Arcmaps as part of my volunteer work as a member of my local planning</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> board. I’ve learned to make good use of fairly low-level skills. I’m now</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> exploring QGIS as an alternative, especially so I train some other</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> volunteers in my town without a budget.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> I find some things puzzling, and don’t know anyone expert I can ask</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> questions. For instance, right now, I’m trying to understand what</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> information is lost when I import an ArcGIS shapefile. QGIS won’t import</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> the .prj files, but the resulting QGIS vector still seems to have the</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> correct coordinates. Similar issues with raster files, and with the NY</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> State Orthographic files - I can only bring in a TIFF or a jp2, but the map</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> seems OK.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> Where can I get tips at my admittedly low level of background. I doubt I</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> need high level analytical techniques, python, etc., to do useful work. But</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> I’d like to avoid dumb mistakes.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> Suggestions welcome.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> Sent from my iPad</p></div>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Randal Hale </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">North River Geographic Systems, Inc </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">https://www.northrivergeographic.com</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">(p) 423.653.3611 </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">(e) rjhale@northrivergeographic.com</p><div id="yiv3442759938yqtfd83039" class="yiv3442759938yqt4111938736">
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