[Qgis-user] QGis for bird surveys

[Alexandre Neto]

For each new record you need to add a new Point to your shapefile. If you
need to enter the coordinates by hand, then you should take a look at the
numerical digitalize plugin. After the point is added you can then edit the
rest of your attributes.

If you have too many new observations already in a spreadsheet, then you
can do in another way:

- Create a temporary shapefile from the new spreadsheet, making sure that
its attributes are the same as you main shapefile;
- Add it to map canvas;
- Select that layer and copy all its features (points) using the select by
rectangle or directly on attribute table and copy them to clipboard.
- Select the main shapefile, star editing (the pencil icon), and paste the
features from clipboars.

If everything went well, and the layers attributes match, you will get all
the new bird sighting in the main shapefile.

Still, the best would be to directly input the sightings on the shapefile.

Hope it helps,

Alexandre Neto

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Lynkos <lynkosmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> ... to modify the data, yes in fact that's what I'm doing. But to ADD a
> new record from the coordinate data? Am I missing an "add" button somewhere?
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> 2013/4/3 Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
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>> Il 03/04/2013 12:05, Lynkos ha scritto:
>> > Thanks for answering so quickly Paolo.
>> > Adding the data directly to the imported shapefile is exactly what I
>> would like to
>> > do. I'm sure it's incredibly simple, but I just can't figure out how,
>> Sarah.
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>> Just click on the Pen button, start editing.
>> All the best.
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