[Qgis-user] Adding coordinates to google earth

[Sam Vekemans]

gpsvisualizer.com has the ability to convert kml to gpx..
qgis can handle gpx file format.
(provided the kml is a linear or node, and a small file)


cheers,
sam

On 8/19/11, Alister Hood <alister.hood at synergine.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:04:15 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: adamu eloji <aeloji60 at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: [Qgis-user] Adding coordinates to google earth
>> To: "qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org" <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>
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>> Hi,
>>
>>             I have some coordinates that i want to demonstrate to others
>> who may want to use google earth to map those locations, but dont know how
>> to go about it.Can some one > with idea show me the steps.
>> Thanks
>> El-Oji
>
> Try putting the coordinates in a csv file, adding this to QGIS using the
> delimited text plugin, then right-clicking on the layer, "save as", and
> choose to save as KML format.
>
>
> Alister
>


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