Exercise – 5 / How to Create Shapefile's from Excel in QGIS
Create centroids from Excel / CSV data.
Many times, the GIS data comes in a table or an Excel spreadsheet. Also, if you have a list lat/long or X & Y coordinates, you can easily import this data in your GIS project.
- Open the excel data for lat/long or X & Y coordinates.
Figure 144 - Excel Data with X & Y coordinates
- Convert Excel data into CSV format.
Figure 145 - Saving Excel data from xlsx format to csv format
- Choose Layer → Add Layer → Add Delimited Text Layer
Figure 146 Add Delimited Text Layer Window
- Click on to browse the csv file
- Under Record and Fields Option, follow as per the figure 141
Figure 147– Record and Fields Options
- Check Geometry Definition and follow as per the figure 142
Figure 148 – Geometry Definitions
- Check for X field and Y fields, if it is lat/long mention X field as Longitude and Y fields as Latitude
- Select Geometry CRS and provide the CRS information.
- Click on Add button and Close the Delimited Textwindow
- Temporary layer will be created and added to Layer panel with <CSV file name> layer. Right click on the layer and save to destination folder.
- Click on from toolbars section and click on the point layer to view the information of the data.
Figure 149 QGIS with created point layer with csv
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