Hi Look in the plugins menu or QGIS, there is a delimited text importer:
Plugins -> Delimited Text -> Add Delimited Text Layer Once you have imported your data you may want to right click on its legend entry and save it out as a shape file (commonly use GIS format) for easier loading in future (you can then load itt using the 'Add Vector Layer' icon). For some free country boundary data you can look here: http://www.cipotato.org/diva/data/MoreData.htm Best regards Tim 2007/11/22, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm a total newbie to GIS in general and QGIS in particular. The > omnipresent jargon in the User Guide is scary, and the learning curve is > steep for me. Just opening/importing a text data file is not even a > standard feature! (I use OSX 10.4.10.) > My task is to overlay a color-coded gridded map of atmospheric satellite > data on a flat, 2D, lat x long contour of continents. This is the kind > of standard stuff for NASA or NOAA people, although they probably do it > in IDL. The data is in text format, at 0.5deg intervals in both lat and > long. > How should I proceed to import it correctly and have the data pixels > color-coded? > Where can I get files of continent contours in flat lat x long projection? > > Thanks for any help! > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.qgis.org > http://lists.qgis.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > -- Tim Sutton QGIS Project Steering Committee Member - Release Manager Visit http://qgis.org for a great open source GIS openModeller Desktop Developer Visit http://openModeller.sf.net for a great open source ecological niche modelling tool Home Page: http://tim.linfiniti.com Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.qgis.org http://lists.qgis.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
