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

[Micha Silver]

alessandro.sarretta at inwind.it wrote:

> For the first question:
>
> convert your xls file in a txt or csv file, and then use the 
> "Delimited text - Add delimitex text layer" plugin to view the data. 
> That you convert it in a shapefile.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Ale
>
For the second, try

http://www.gadm.org/

>     ----Messaggio originale----
>     Da: M.E.Dodd at open.ac.uk
>     Data: 20/10/2009 10.48
>     A: "'qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org'"<qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>
>     Ogg: [Qgis-user] creating a point, free basemaps and going past
>     180 degrees
>
>     -->
>
>     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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