[Qgis-user] Export to vector layer to CSV with coordinates

[Goyo]

2011/2/25 Václav Řehák <rehakv01 at gmail.com>:
> Hi list,
>
> is there a way how to export vector layer to a csv file including the
> coordinates? The "Save as..." - "Comma Separated Value" command
> exports only the attributes but my users would like to export the
> data, perform some processing (such as filtering) in Excel and load
> the data as a new layer.

This is what I do. Select the features in QGIS, copy, paste into your
spreadsheet app. The geometries are pasted as WKT in the first column.
Use "Text to columns" feature (this depends on your app) if you want
the coordinates as numbers. This works only for points and shouldn't
be necessary since the text import plugin seems to understand WKT. Do
your stuff, then select all cells, copy and paste into a text file for
use with QGIS.

This is indeed a terrible idea for data integrity but if you work with
shapefiles, dbf and text files you haven't got data integrity anyway.

Goyo