[Qgis-user] Questions on CSV plugin & UTF8, or dbf to spatial.

[Koos Hagg]

Hi Richard,
Your plugin will be great! I tried it but did not get the right result, all
of the points get loaded in to a shapefile (the table is intact), but it
they are all placed at one or two x,y points...
I attached a dbf, you can give it a try. These are the center points of
communes in a particular province in Vn.

Agustin, thanks for your reply- yes, I always hav my layer import encoding
set for UTF-8. I have had day where I forgot it though and was scratching my
head until I figured it out!

Koos


On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde
<rdmailings at duif.net>wrote:

> On 2011-10-25 14:19, Koos Hagg wrote:
> > I did see the XY tools plugin by Richard Duivenvoorde, but I think it's
> > the wrong way around for this case, seems to me that it is designed for
> > digitizing from the canvas, to fill x,y columns, instead of take xy
> > columns and plot them...
>
> Hi Koos,
>
> if you have a dbf with the values in all columns, you could use the
> XYtools plugin ... I think.
> The XYtools actually has two functions: one is indeed to fill an X and Y
> column of a csv or dbf file by clicking in a map.
> But it also has an option to save that dbf file then as a shape file by
> picking two columns as x and y column.
>
> So please have a go: open your dbf in qgis, and then via 'Plugins/XY
> tools/Save table as Point shape file' try to save it.
> Not sure if it is utf-8 ready to be honest...
>
> If you want, please sent me off list the dbf, then I can use that as a
> test also :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde
>
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