[Qgis-user] Where can I get a shapefile made from a table of co-ordinates to map a bird monitoring project ?

Brent Wood pcreso at pcreso.com
Tue Aug 11 12:16:45 PDT 2015


Hi Stephen,
What sort of database? 

While QGIS can talk to several popular spatially enabled databases directly (MySQL, PostGIS, SQL Server, Oracle, etc - sometimes with a bit of work) and to non-spatial databases with virtual data sources, it may be simpler in your case to export the data as CSV and open it as delimited text in QGIS.
You will need to specify the field delimiter character, & the columns to use for X & Y coordinates, & the CRS (EPSG:4326 if lat/long decimal degrees), then QGIS will plot your data fine. If you still want to create a shapefile, use QGIS to save the layer as a shapefile.
Brent Wood
      From: Stephen Routledge <rout at netc.net.au>
 To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org 
 Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 7:09 PM
 Subject: [Qgis-user] Where can I get a shapefile made from a table of co-ordinates to map a bird monitoring project ?
   
Dear Qgis list,
Where can I get a shapefile made from a table of co-ordinates to map a bird monitoring project ?
I have a data base with 11 fields with 52 eastings and northings which I would like to map.
Where can I get a shape file made to fit my QGIS 2.8 WIEN software OS X 10.8.5 operating system. (EPSG :4326, WGS 84)
Can anyone please help? I have been struggling with this for a week and my brain has come to a brick wall….
Any easy solution and a nudge in the right direction would be much appreciated.
Yours sincerely 
Stephen RoutledgeProject ManagerSwamps Rivers & Ranges0467224124http://swampsriversandranges.org/

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