[Qgis-user] Export polygon coordinates qgis

[Lester Anderson]

The important point is to make sure the shapefile is in a proper projection
and not just a cartesian reference. Then you can export the vertices after
reprojecting.

There are other ways to do this via GMT too.

On 17 March 2015 at 08:50, Enrico Ferreguti <enricofer at gmail.com> wrote:

> You can simply copy selected features from attributes table and paste them
> to excel table.
> in the first column you will find magically the geom attribute in WKT
> (Well Known Text format) containing all vertices coordinates expressed in
> layer srs.
> To get lat/long in geom field you need to explicitly reproject layer with
> vector or processing tool. Reproject on the fly does not apply on copy &
> paste geom field.
> Regards
>
> 2015-03-17 9:08 GMT+01:00 Tomasz Bigaj <tomek at jagielka.eu>:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> I need to export polygon coordinates from shp  to text file.
>>
>> I can mark an object on map and use “Ctrl+C” but only x y coordinates are
>> copied.
>>
>> How can I recalculate X Y coordinates to get lat/long geographical
>> coordinates? I’d prefer to do it in Excel, because have a lot of extracted
>> X Y data.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards - Tomek
>>
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