<p>For the first question:</p>
<p>convert your xls file in a txt or csv file, and then use the "Delimited text - Add delimitex text layer" plugin to view the data. That you convert it in a shapefile.</p>
<p>Hope this helps</p>
<p>Ale</p>
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<blockquote>----Messaggio originale----<br /> Da: M.E.Dodd@open.ac.uk<br /> Data: 20/10/2009 10.48<br /> A: "'qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org'"<qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org><br /> Ogg: [Qgis-user] creating a point, free basemaps and going past 180 degrees<br /> <br /> <!-- <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region" /><o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place" /><! [if !mso]> <mce:style><! st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } --> <!--[endif]--><!-- p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:#606420; text-decoration:underline;} span.EmailStyle17 {mso-style-type:personal-compose; font-family:Arial; color:windowtext;} @page Section1 {size:595.3pt 841.9pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} @list l0 {mso-list-id:1205216255; mso-list-type:hybrid; mso-list-template-ids:-998091740 134807567 134807577 134807579 134807567 134807577 134807579 134807567 134807577 134807579;} @list l0:level1 {mso-level-tab-stop:36.0pt; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;} @list l0:level2 {mso-level-tab-stop:72.0pt; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;} @list l0:level3 {mso-level-tab-stop:108.0pt; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;} @list l0:level4 {mso-level-tab-stop:144.0pt; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;} @list l0:level5 {mso-level-tab-stop:180.0pt; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;} @list l0:level6 {mso-level-tab-stop:216.0pt; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;} @list l0:level7 {mso-level-tab-stop:252.0pt; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;} @list l0:level8 {mso-level-tab-stop:288.0pt; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;} @list l0:level9 {mso-level-tab-stop:324.0pt; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;} ol {margin-bottom:0cm;} ul {margin-bottom:0cm;} -> --> -->
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Three questions from someone newish to qgis:</span></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">how do you put point data on a map in qgis. This seems to be the simplest thing to do in most other gis systems but the most difficult in qgis or have I completely missed something. E.g. I have a file of lat long coordinates or ordnance survey coordinates in an excel file and simply want to plot them out, how do I do that? I have actually done it but only via another gis (then saving and replotting the resulting vector format file in qgis) or via a .kml file again generated elsewhere.</span></span> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">how to get hold of free basemap outline data e.g. countries of the world. I have tried very many different sources and still not found a nice set of data that is relatively easy to use.</span></span> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"> </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">how to display and use maps that are not centred on the prime meridian and go past 180 degrees e.g. maps of Russia?</span></span> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"></span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">This is for a project to plot records of species in Russia i.e. plot the location of a sighting, seems straightforward enough but actually turns out to be very difficult.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Mike</span></span></p>
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