Can I ask why it's recommended to use the GPS Tool plugin? I was recently working with GPX data and just used the standard Add Vector Layer.
Best, --Lee On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Nick Hopton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Des Callaghan wrote > > > > Many thanks Lene and Nick, this worked a treat. Combined with the Google > > Satellite basemap, imported using the fantastic 'OpenLayers' plugin, this > > is > > just what I needed. Many thanks for your help. Best wishes, Des > > > > Just a couple of points arising, Des. It's very useful to be able to > overlay > your own data on OpenLayers to get a visual indication of of how well it > fits. But OpenLayers use a very peculiar CRS which can make it unsafe to do > thing like use the tape measure for measuring distances or the area tool > for > measuring areas. The other thing is that closing OpenLayers will leave your > project CRS in the Google Projection, fix this by resetting your project > projection to your shapefile layer projection. If you would like some GB > base maps to use with your GPS data you could try OS OpenData VectorMap > District Rasters. They are pretty base too, but accurate. > > Nick. > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/GPX-OS-Grid-References-and-Google-Earth-tp4907061p4910779.html > Sent from the Quantum GIS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >
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