I'm also confused. It reads to me that  the lat/longs are in the data file 
already. 

If that's the case, wouldn't the Identify Features Tool do what you need?

(By default this only shows information from the currently selected layer, but 
this can be changed in Settings->Options->Map Tools)

-ramon.

On 19/10/2011, at 3:04, Giovanni Manghi <giovanni.man...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure I understood your question, if not try the "point sampling
> tool" plugin.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> -- Giovanni --
> 
> On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 11:51 +0100, M.E.Dodd wrote:
>> There are some plugins that will sort of do this but not found
>> something that allows easy click on a point to immediately see all the
>> information about that point, then click on another one to see info
>> about that point.  An example, a map with thousands of points(each
>> with a code number and lat long info) plotted over a google basemap
>> layer, just zooming in on the points shows the google location in its
>> coordinate system not the lat long info that could be used to find the
>> location in the points .csv file.
>> 
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