[Qgis-user] Co-ordinates

[Yasser Said Lopez de Olmos Reyes]

Well, a more direct response:

1. If you have the CSV files make sure they are comma separated and in a
decimal degree format (not grades, minutes, seconds or words and letters
like "grades" or "W", "E", etc.), you'll need things like "1,90.3425,
-100.0000".

2. You click in the "Add CSV layer" icon (in QGIS 1.8 is a big blue icon
with commas, in 1.9 is a big comma icon).

3. You upload your CSV file and check the separator box you used and
accept, then make sure X and Y correspond with longitude and latitude.

4. This is not a shapefile yet, these are, in ESRI's slang, "events". To
save these "events" as shapefiles use right click on layer and "Save As..."

5. I f you need to specify data types I would highly recommend to use
"Table Manager" addon.

Hope this helps.


2013/8/12 Alexandre Neto <senhor.neto at gmail.com>

> Hello,
>
> Could you please give us a bit more information about what do you mean by
> working with coordinates?
>
> All information about how to work with projections in QGIS is in this
> section of the user manual:
>
>
> http://docs.qgis.org/1.8/html/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_projections/working_with_projections.html
>
> To open a CSV file where coordinates columns exist, please look at this
> section of the user manual:
>
>
> http://docs.qgis.org/1.8/html/en/docs/user_manual/plugins/plugins_delimited_text.html?highlight=delimited%20text
>
>
> Also, to specify data types of csv columns, take a look to this post by
> Anita Graser.
>
>
> http://anitagraser.com/2011/03/07/how-to-specify-data-types-of-csv-columns-for-use-in-qgis/
>
>
> Hope it helped.
>
> Alexandre Neto
>
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Geovicon <geovicon at iafrica.com> wrote:
>
>> To whom it may concern****
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>> We are struggling to work with co-ordinates in Quantum GIS.****
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>> How do we get the co-ordinates in a form that is acceptable to QGIS ?****
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>> Please send an example of a .csv file and inform us how to import/open it
>> in QGIS.****
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>> What is the method if only one co-ordinate want to be used ?****
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>> These things are not clear in the manual.****
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>> Thanks****
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-- 
Saludos,

Yasser
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