[Qgis-user] How to edit csv file

[Bernd Vogelgesang]

Hi Jan,
it's not possible to edit csv-files, cause they are opened as a read-only  
connection. (Hover with the mouse over the layer in the layer Panel, and  
it will show you the
To be able to edit your data, you have to save them to another format  
(ESRI-shape, spatialite etc.)

If you need the edited data as csv again, just export them to csv  
afterwards (Save as ...)

No idea about iPhones

Cheers
Bernd

Am 17.09.2015, 21:14 Uhr, schrieb Jan Becket <janbecket.net at gmail.com>:

> Beginning user here - just migrated from Delorme X-Map Professionsl on  
> the Windows side to Q-GIS on a Mac. I figured out that I cannot edit my  
> GPX waypoint files in Q-GIS (which I did in X-Map) and so have shifted  
> them to csv format w/ GPS Babel. No problem, except that I need to  
> frequently update and synchronize with waypoints on my iPhone. When I  
> open the attribute file for the csv point layer, the edit function is  
> grayed out. How to make the layer / source file editable within Q-GIS?
>
> A related question - I am using Gaia GPS on the iPhone (w/ a Garmin  
> bluetooth GLO receiver). Is there a better iPhone app out there that  
> might communicate directly w/ Q-GIS and bypass the need to manually  
> update the csv layer?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jan Becket
> Honolulu
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