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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Three questions from someone newish to qgis:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">how do you put point data on a map in qgis. This seems to be the simplest thing to do in most other gis systems but the most
difficult in qgis or have I completely missed something. E.g. I have a file of lat long coordinates or ordnance survey coordinates in an excel file and simply want to plot them out, how do I do that? I have actually done it but only via another gis (then
saving and replotting the resulting vector format file in qgis) or via a .kml file again generated elsewhere.</span></font>
<font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">how to get hold of free basemap outline data e.g. countries of the world. I have tried very many different sources and still
not found a nice set of data that is relatively easy to use.</span></font> <font size="2" face="Arial">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">how to display and use maps that are not centred on the prime meridian and go past 180 degrees e.g. maps of
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region></st1:place>?</span></font>
<font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></font></li></ol>
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font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">This is for a project to plot records of species in
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region></st1:place> i.e. plot the location of a sighting, seems straightforward enough but actually turns out to be very difficult.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Mike<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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