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

[Raymond Nijssen]

Hi Maria,

You are welcome! And thanks for reporting back.

Raymond

On 26-01-19 01:24, Maria Shinoto wrote:
> 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 
>> <mailto: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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