[Qgis-user] How to edit csv file

[Paulo van Breugel]

Hi Jan,

Did you check out the GPS tools plugin for QGIS? Go to menu -> plugins 
-> manage and install plugins and look for that name. That tool should 
be able to handle GPX files.

Paulo



On 17-09-15 21:27, Bernd Vogelgesang wrote:
> 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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