[Qgis-user] How to get a point's coordinate for GPS?

[C Hamilton]

Maria,

You can certainly do it with the field calculator, but I wanted an easier
way. I programmed this capability into the Lat Lon Tools
<http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/latlontools/>plugin. The specific function
is "Geometry to field". You can access it from "Plugins->Lat Lon
Tools->Conversions->Geometry to field" or from the processing toolbox under
Lat Lon tools.

There is a lot of functionality with this. You can export the the points to
either a single field in the attributes table with a separator or to two
fields. You can specify the output CRS. You can also choose between Decimal
degrees, DMS coordinates, GeoJSON, WKT, MGRS, and Plus Codes.

As far as getting it onto your Garmin device try the POI Exporter
<http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/poiexport/>plugin which is another plugin
I wrote. Look at the documentation. It will export your data in GPX format
and you can use Garmin Basecamp or the Garmin POI Loader to get it onto
your device.

Calvin

On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 5:49 AM Maria Shinoto <maria at shinoto.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have been watching YouTube and reading tutorials the whole afternoon,
> but I do not get this simple task done:
>
> I have a map with several layers in EPSG:2444. Now I create another vector
> layer with points, which represents points that I have to go myself and
> check for several features. I will go there with my Garmin Etrex 10 GPS.
>
> So, I would like to
>
> - add the coordinates of the certain points into the attribute table to
> print out the table later.
> - create a file with the coordinates in order to import it into the GPS
> device and walk along all points.
>
> My question:
>
> 1. How do I get readable (GPS) coordinates into the attribute table
> (automatically, with field calculator or so)?
> 2. Can I export a GPX file or so from these coordinates to import into a
> Garmin device (if so, how?)
>
>
> It seems so basic, but I do not succeed.
>
> Best,
> Maria
>
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