Hi John:
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.
A simple text format would be :
1,45.3741, -62.1548
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.
Instructions on how to import the file and convert it to a spatila layer
are found at: (I know, another tutorial)
https://www.qgistutorials.com/en/docs/3/importing_spreadsheets_csv.html
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.
Kirk Schmidt
On 4/19/2021 11:36 AM, John Moyle wrote:
I 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.
My 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.
Thank you
John Moyle
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