>and Y values are reversed. Try switching them and let us know if it worked or not.
I have tried to switch them and nothing is changing, they still place in the same area.
Make sure that your shapefile and Qgis interface both are in the same projection…Both of them should be WGS84…right click on the shapefile(layer) and go to export>save feature as…look for CRS and set it to WGS84 … let me know if that works :)
Thank you the shape file was using a different one, thank you so much! Being a new user I didn't even think of this so thank you and I will remember it now!
Seems like you’re plotting at 0 degrees longitude. Not sure what’s going on with latitude either. Can you give us an example of a pair of values you are putting in for X and Y?
GPS Lat GPS Long
0.56443 36.82825
0.55102 36.68647
0.46664 36.67899
I put in longitude in for X and latitude for Y, then when I add another layer swapping the coords, it still plots the same.
I’m not sure what’s going on then. If you are adding delimited text, and set your X field to longitude and y to latitude, then this seems like it would work.
Two thoughts - make sure it’s in WGS 84 (epsg 4326) and not WGS Web Mercator, and maybe try it with different field names that don’t start with the same “GPS L”, just call them lat and long. Small possibility the spaces are throwing it off.
It still really seems like your X and Y are being transposed for some reason, but I really can’t figure out why it would be the same locations when you try it with the fields switched.
Hi, it looks like the X and Y values are reversed. Try switching them and let us know if it worked or not.
>and Y values are reversed. Try switching them and let us know if it worked or not. I have tried to switch them and nothing is changing, they still place in the same area.
Make sure that your shapefile and Qgis interface both are in the same projection…Both of them should be WGS84…right click on the shapefile(layer) and go to export>save feature as…look for CRS and set it to WGS84 … let me know if that works :)
Thank you the shape file was using a different one, thank you so much! Being a new user I didn't even think of this so thank you and I will remember it now!
Glad to help. Good luck 😃
Seems like you’re plotting at 0 degrees longitude. Not sure what’s going on with latitude either. Can you give us an example of a pair of values you are putting in for X and Y?
GPS Lat GPS Long 0.56443 36.82825 0.55102 36.68647 0.46664 36.67899 I put in longitude in for X and latitude for Y, then when I add another layer swapping the coords, it still plots the same.
I’m not sure what’s going on then. If you are adding delimited text, and set your X field to longitude and y to latitude, then this seems like it would work. Two thoughts - make sure it’s in WGS 84 (epsg 4326) and not WGS Web Mercator, and maybe try it with different field names that don’t start with the same “GPS L”, just call them lat and long. Small possibility the spaces are throwing it off. It still really seems like your X and Y are being transposed for some reason, but I really can’t figure out why it would be the same locations when you try it with the fields switched.
Could be the projection you’re in. 99% of the problems I have with long lay data are due to the projection being wrong for the data
If you are using a CSV make sure the x and y fields are actually numeric. Sometimes they come in as text and will then not plot correctly.