[Qgis-user] creating a point, free basemaps and going past 180 degrees

[Bernhard Ströbl]

Dear Mike,

1. maybe the "Add Delimited Text Layer" - Plugin is what you were 
looking for. Export your xls to csv and load that with the plugin. The 
manual explains its use if you have any difficulties.
2. did you have a look at dcw (digital chart of the world)?
3. ask a book on cartography or look into an atlas' map of Russia which 
projection it uses.

regards Benno


M.E.Dodd schrieb:
> Three questions from someone newish to qgis:
> 
>  1.  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.
>  2.  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.
>  3.  how to display and use maps that are not centred on the prime meridian and go past 180 degrees e.g. maps of Russia?
> 
> This is for a project to plot records of species in Russia i.e. plot the location of a sighting, seems straightforward enough but actually turns out to be very difficult.
> Thanks
> Mike
> 
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