<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yiv5667626499"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_111825"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_111824" style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div id="yiv5667626499yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_110511"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_112578">Hi Kathleen,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_112579"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_112580" dir="ltr">NIWA in New Zealand also needed this sort of capability, & paid Nyall Dawson (downunder QGIS developer) to implement improved lat/long grids & annotations to the QGIS map/print composer (he did a great job!) - but if you want the grid as a map layer, then you'll need to follow some of the links Anita suggested to create a set of lines forming the grid. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_112582" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_112644" dir="ltr">You could also use use CAD tools plugin to edit parallel & orthogonal lines in a new layer, but beware that displaying lat/long lines in a projected map can be problematic - the straight line vs great circle issue.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_112645" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_112969" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_112646" dir="ltr">To create an image with a lat/long grid using the map composer (requires at least v2.6 of QGIS):</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_112647" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_112707" dir="ltr">create your map as usual & start a new print composer (file menu).</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_112710" dir="ltr">1. add your map to the page (using tool on left side)<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_112832" dir="ltr">2. add a grid, choosing your spacing & labelling preferences - to create something like the attached image <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_112837" dir="ltr">(using menu on right side) </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_112840" dir="ltr">3. Save as image (menu along top)<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_112708" dir="ltr"> <br></div></div><div id="yiv5667626499yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_110510"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_112839" dir="ltr">Note that you can create multiple grids, which lets you have one grid with (say) 5 degree ticks/lines, then another with no ticks/lines but with labels at a 10 degree interval - so your map has every second line labelled.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_112971" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_112974" dir="ltr">Hope this helps, if you need more detailed instructions, ask me off list...<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_112972" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_112913" dir="ltr">Brent<br clear="none"></div></div><div id="yiv5667626499yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_110509"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv5667626499yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_110504"><span></span></div><br clear="none"> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yiv5667626499yqt3248822891" id="yiv5667626499yqt29031"><div id="yiv5667626499yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_110507" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div id="yiv5667626499yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_110506" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div dir="ltr" id="yiv5667626499yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_110505"> <hr id="yiv5667626499yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_110513" size="1"> <font id="yiv5667626499yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_110548" face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Kathleen Cole <wxlady@gci.net><br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org <br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, February 2, 2015 8:22 AM<br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Qgis-user] lat/log grid<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <div class="yiv5667626499y_msg_container" id="yiv5667626499yui_3_16_0_1_1422728794805_110524"><br clear="none">Hi, I'm new to qgis. 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