[Qgis-user] QGis for bird surveys

[Lynkos]

I had actually looked for the answer in the (excellent) documentation
before asking this question and am quite sure that the solution is in there
somewhere for someone with more experience. I will continue experimenting
the various ways you have all kindly suggested. I think though that Andreas
may be right... perhaps there should be easier ways to achieve what I
imagine to be quite a routine task.
Thanks to all of you for your patience and kind help, Sarah.


2013/4/3 Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>

> Hi,
>
> Actually an easy import from one table into the other, with the ability
> to map columns and avoid duplicates, is missing in my opinion. There are
> several ways to achieve what you want, Sarah (like merging shapefiles,
> loading from text and copy/paste). But there should be easier ways to
> achieve that.
>
> We are in feature freeze for QGIS 2.0 - so maybe something for QGIS 2.1 ;-)
>
> Andreas
>
> Am 03.04.2013 16:34, schrieb Albin Blaschka:
> > Hello!
> >
> > Maybe a look into the manual would also help...
> >
> > http://www.qgis.org/en/documentation.html
> >
> > and the How-to pages (linked from the above mentioned page):
> > http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/wiki/How_do_I_do_that_in_QGIS
> >
> > HTH,
> > Albin
> >
> >
> >
> > Am 03.04.2013 16:04, schrieb Lynkos:
> >> Alexandre
> >> , thanks :-). I'll try your suggestion and let you know if I can make it
> >> work.
> >>
> >>
> >> 2013/4/3 Alexandre Neto <senhor.neto at gmail.com
> >> <mailto:senhor.neto at gmail.com>>
> >>
> >>     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
> >>     <mailto: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?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>         2013/4/3 Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it
> >>         <mailto:cavallini at faunalia.it>>
> >>
> > 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.
> >
> > Just click on the Pen button, start editing.
> > All the best.
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