[Qgis-user] Point-Layer from GPS-Coordinates

[Werner Macho]

Hi!

Just a rough guess - maybe you mixed up lat/lon to lon/lat during the
import?
GPS should be in WGS84 (EPSG:4326) so there is not much that could go wrong.

regards
Werner


On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 9:27 AM L.W. <eaglelw at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a MariaDB-Database-Table with GPS-Points (from Phonetrack) an
> want to visualize them in QGIS.
>
> I imported the table with a dataset-connection to MariaDB and I see the
> plain text data.
>
> After that I created a virtual point layer by using make_point from lat
> and lon.
>
> I can see the points on map but they are in the middle of the ocean next
> to south africa and not all over europe.
>
> I tried different CRS (project crs is 3857 (I do have some other layers
> in this projects with i.e. online routing tool, or other point layers.
>
> But I can not achieve to move the coords/points to correct position -
> all other layers are right.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards
>
> PS: In generell, which is the "best" CRS for handling with GPS-Coords
> like saved by phonetrack (exported to GPX) or by i.e. Android GPStracker
> (exported as GPX)?
>
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