[Qgis-user] QGis for bird surveys

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi,

If it is just point data I would also recommend to keep the data in a
plain text file and maintain the data in a spreadsheet (LibreOffice or
Excel). You can then read in the data with the delimited text reader
plugin (in the layer menu). Just make sure that the columns stay
consistent. I believe that QGIS 2.0 (or master) can also read Excel and
OpenOffice files directly.

If you the choice I would recommend LibreOffice over MS-Office. It
handles text files better than MS Office. But the latter would work as
well - if you already familiar with it. The only small problem you may
have is encoding for foreign characters. Just make sure that QGIS and
the spreadsheet both use the same encoding.

Good luck,
Andreas

Am 03.04.2013 17:37, schrieb Rudi von Staden:
> Hi Sarah,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Lynkos <lynkosmail at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'd love to have the time to learn PostGIS and maybe I will one day,
>> although perhaps its powerful performance would be excessive for such a
>> small amount of data. My problem is that my job is something quite
>> different and I just can't find the learning time necessary. I'm sure
>> following the advice given here I'll be able to resolve the problem in the
>>  most appropriate way, Sarah
>>
> 
> If this is the only application you have, and you only need to add data
> periodically, it might be easiest to maintain the data in Excel and just
> append the new records there. You can then import each time and recreate
> the shapefile. If it's important to maintain a consistent layer style, you
> can save the style as a qml file and then just load it again each time you
> do a new import. Might be easier than select/copy/edit/paste each time, and
> the data will probably be in a format you're more familiar with.
> 
> Anyway, there have been quite a few suggestions, so you can decide which
> approach will work best for you!
> 
> Kind regards,
> Rudi
> 
> 
> 
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