<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439001384667_630574">Hi Stephen,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439001384667_630604"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439001384667_630605">What sort of database? <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439001384667_630606"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439001384667_630607">While QGIS can talk to several popular spatially enabled databases directly (MySQL, PostGIS, SQL Server, Oracle, etc - sometimes with a bit of work) and to non-spatial databases with virtual data sources, it may be simpler in your case to export the data as CSV and open it as delimited text in QGIS.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439001384667_630757"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439001384667_630758" dir="ltr">You will need to specify the field delimiter character, & the columns to use for X & Y coordinates, & the CRS (EPSG:4326 if lat/long decimal degrees), then QGIS will plot your data fine. If you still want to create a shapefile, use QGIS to save the layer as a shapefile.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439001384667_630565"><span></span></div>Brent Wood<br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439001384667_630796" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439001384667_630795" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439001384667_630794" dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439001384667_630793" face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Stephen Routledge <rout@netc.net.au><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, August 11, 2015 7:09 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Qgis-user] Where can I get a shapefile made from a table of co-ordinates to map a bird monitoring project ?<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439001384667_630797" class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv5288150573"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439001384667_630800"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439001384667_630799"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439001384667_630798">Dear Qgis list,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439001384667_630801"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439001384667_630802">Where can I get a shapefile made from a table of co-ordinates to map a bird monitoring project ?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439001384667_630803"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439001384667_630804">I have a data base with 11 fields with 52 eastings and northings which I would like to map.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439001384667_630805"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439001384667_630806">Where can I get a shape file made to fit my QGIS 2.8 WIEN software <span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:11px;">OS X 10.8.5</span><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:11px;"> operating system. (EPSG :4326, WGS 84)</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439001384667_630807"><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:11px;"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439001384667_630808"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439001384667_630809" face="Lucida Grande" size="2">Can anyone please help? I have been struggling with this for a week and my brain has come to a brick wall….</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439001384667_630810"><font face="Lucida Grande" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="2">Any easy solution and a nudge in the right direction would be much appreciated.</font></div><div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="2">Yours sincerely </font></div><div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="2"><br></font></div><div><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium;">Stephen Routledge</div><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium;">Project Manager</div><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium;">Swamps Rivers & Ranges</div><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium;">0467224124</div><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://swampsriversandranges.org/">http://swampsriversandranges.org/</a></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Qgis-user mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>