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<p>Hi John:</p>
<p>Yes, life is too short to waste time. I would add the lat/long
into a spreadsheet or simple ascii text file. This way, you can
double check your entries and once you are ready, you can bring
them into QGIS as a *.txt or *.csv file.</p>
<p>A simple text format would be :</p>
<p>1,45.3741, -62.1548 <br>
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<p>where 1 is the point id and the next is the longitude and
latitude. These values are separated by a comma, however a semi
colon or tab would work as well. You can also reverse the
lat/long if it is easier for you.</p>
<p>Instructions on how to import the file and convert it to a
spatila layer are found at: (I know, another tutorial)<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.qgistutorials.com/en/docs/3/importing_spreadsheets_csv.html">https://www.qgistutorials.com/en/docs/3/importing_spreadsheets_csv.html</a></p>
<p>If your coordinates are in degrees/minutes, you can use them as
well. Reach out to me and I can give you the correct syntax if
you need it. <br>
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<p>Kirk Schmidt<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/19/2021 11:36 AM, John Moyle
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am a retired Chartered Engineer, Physician and
Anaesthetist!. In retirement I have completed a PhD "The
Maintenance of the Victorian Submarine Telegraph Cable
System". I want to correlate N Atlantic cable interruptions
with geological events of that era. I have found a
raster-file of the sea bed and a shape file of the tectonic
plate boundaries. Fantastic! Now I want to make separate
point or line layers for each interruption, volcano,
earthquake and landslide. I have all the data in
lat/long, hand written in a notebook whilst searching the
archives at the National Maritime Museum.</span>
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problem is that all QGIS-3 courses take many hours turning
one into a town and country planner before the simple layers
I want to make! At 75, life is too short. I want to input
the co-ordinates, by hand, layer by layer. Can anyone give
me step by step instructions please.</div>
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