[Qgis-user] seeing coordinates in the data table

[Michael Dufty]

Probably not what you are after, but if you go to options-data sources you can set copy features as to "plain text, wkt geometry" then when you copy data out of the table and paste it into a text file or spreadsheet it will have a wkt geometry column (I think may truncate long wkts though).

I rather liked the feature of Manifold GIS which has "intrinsic columns" in the tables, these are hidden columns with coordinates, areas, length etc, which you can just turn on if you want to see them rather than having to calculate, would have been even better if you could default them to visible.  I've long intended to make a qgis feature request for it.




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From: QGIS-User <qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> On Behalf Of Greg Troxel via QGIS-User
Sent: Tuesday, 3 September 2024 3:38 AM
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Subject: [Qgis-user] seeing coordinates in the data table

When I open the data table, I can't find a way to see the geometry object, in either layer CRS or project CRS.

I do see a way to generate a layer which has the attributes as fields:

  https://docs.qgis.org/3.34/en/docs/user_manual/processing_algs/qgis/vectorgeometry.html#add-geometry-attributes

But I don't really  want to make a layer (which is a copy not a view).
I just want the data table to show me the geometry, because it is a column and has a value.  (I don't mind that it is read only.)

Perhaps I should be using postgis and views to make a layer with extra fields.  Any other advice?


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