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GIS for Operations
  • Introduction
  • How do MAGIC Support Operations?
  • GIS Technologies at BAS
    • Web Mapping
      • Layer Structure
      • Live Data
      • Tools
    • QGIS
  • QGIS for Operations
    • Vectors and Rasters
    • Working with Height data
    • Imagery
    • Making 3D Views
    • Linking documents to Spatial data
    • Working with GPS Devices
      • Working with GPS data in QGIS
      • Working with GPS data in Garmin Basecamp
      • Adding Basemaps to GPS Units
      • GPXTools
    • Useful Plug-ins
      • LatLon Tools
      • Profile Tool
  • Data bundles
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LatLon Tools

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Lat Lon Tools plugin makes it easy to capture, zoom to coordinates, and interact with other on-line mapping tools.

This plugin seems simple, but it adds a lot of functionality to QGIS! It can save time when you want to add a single point to the map - instead of having to load it in as a layer, you can simply use the LatLon Tools to add it by the coordinates.

If you add data through this tool you will have to save it as a vector file to keep it!

The plugin has the following tools:

  • Capture/Display coordinates to the clipboard (in any projection) when the user clicks on the map.

  • Capture the bounding box of the map canvas.

  • Zoom to and highlight a point on the map using coordinates from any projection, and can format the coordinates in decimal degrees (DD) and degrees-minutes-seconds (DMS).

  • Add points to a layer by coordinate.

  • Coordinate conversions

QGIS with LatLon Tools highlighted
Here, we have used Lat Lon Tools to convert the coordinate into Antarctic Polar Stereographic in a variety of formats a