[Qgis-user] Export polygon coordinates qgis

[Lester Anderson]

Have you assigned a projection to your shapefile?

On 17 March 2015 at 08:59, Tomasz Bigaj <tomek at jagielka.eu> wrote:

> Hi Lester,
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> Thanks, it works but… I still get XY coordinates, not lat/long. The
> question i show to convert from XY to lat/long ?
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> Regards – Tomasz
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> *From:* Lester Anderson [mailto:arctica1963 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 17, 2015 9:48 AM
> *To:* Tomasz Bigaj
> *Cc:* qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Qgis-user] Export polygon coordinates qgis
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> Hi Tomasz,
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> This is easy to do.
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> Go into edit mode and select the feature(s) you want (highlighted yellow
> usually). Open the attribute table for the polygon shapefile and click
> "copy slected rows to clipboard" (4th icon from the right on the toolbar).
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> Copy this into a text editor and you get something like this:
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> wkt_geom    id
> POLYGON((-2.72439024390243922 1.60975609756097571,-2.72439024390243922
> 1.95121951219512213,-1.77073170731707341
> 2.02926829268292686,-1.57073170731707323
> 1.42926829268292699,-2.21951219512195141
> 1.06341463414634152,-2.72439024390243922 1.60975609756097571))    1
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> Just edit this file to leave the X, Y coordinates and away you go!
> Coordinate pairs are separated by commas.
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> Cheers
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> Lester
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> On 17 March 2015 at 08:08, Tomasz Bigaj <tomek at jagielka.eu> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I need to export polygon coordinates from shp  to text file.
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> I can mark an object on map and use “Ctrl+C” but only x y coordinates are
> copied.
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> 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.
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> Regards - Tomek
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