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

[Maria Shinoto]

Calvin, Etienne, Raymond, 

Thank you all three for your answers. 

I tested the suggestions with my limited knowledge of QGIS and could use it very well. I can pursue my task now. 

For the records: The suggestions from Raymond worked all very well; Etiennes idea with the virtual field is an excellent idea for ongoing work, unfortunately the calculation example did not work for me -- but it is OK with the more basic solution. Finally, the lat-lon plugin as well as the POI Exporter seem to work seemlessly. I have now to learn about all the power of these plugins. 

Thanks again, 
Maria


> Am 2019-01-25 um 23:29 schrieb C Hamilton <adenaculture at gmail.com>:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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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