You are quite right - old habit using this tool - for up and downloading to GPS. But if you use an older GPS, you canĀ“t open a file direct from the GPS. Has to use the GPS tool. Regards Lene Fischer
>>> Lee Hachadoorian <lee.hachadooria...@gmail.com> 23-04-2012 19:25 >>> 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 <nhop...@gmail.com> 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 Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
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