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<p>Hi John,</p>
<p>Happy retirement...</p>
<p>Simply create a text file with extension .csv and formatted as
below, for example:</p>
<p>First line should be something like the following:<br>
Longitude,Latitude,point,attribute_1,attribute_2</p>
<p>replace "attribute_x" with proper name<br>
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<p>Then on each following line enter your hand written coordinate:<br>
-23.123, 33.123, 1, volcano, volcano_name<br>
...</p>
<p>When done save and import into QGIS using:<br>
Layer -> Add Layer... -> Add Delimited Text Layer...</p>
<p>Make sure to correctly fill the Geometry Definition section.
Normally, Lat & Lon should already be defined correctly. But
you have to define "Geometry CRS"<br>
Hopefully all your points are in the same CRS? Otherwise, create
on csv file per CRS. Assuming you know in which coordinate system
your points are!<br>
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<p>Then you can symbolise the points using one of the attribute
columns.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>Regards,<br>
Benoit de Cabissole<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 19/04/2021 16:36, John Moyle wrote:<br>
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am a retired Chartered Engineer, Physician and
Anaesthetist!. In retirement I have completed a PhD "The
Maintenance of the Victorian Submarine Telegraph Cable
System". I want to correlate N Atlantic cable interruptions
with geological events of that era. I have found a
raster-file of the sea bed and a shape file of the tectonic
plate boundaries. Fantastic! Now I want to make separate
point or line layers for each interruption, volcano,
earthquake and landslide. I have all the data in
lat/long, hand written in a notebook whilst searching the
archives at the National Maritime Museum.</span>
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style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">My
problem is that all QGIS-3 courses take many hours turning
one into a town and country planner before the simple layers
I want to make! At 75, life is too short. I want to input
the co-ordinates, by hand, layer by layer. Can anyone give
me step by step instructions please.</div>
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