Judith,
If you continue to have problems, then you might consider trying an older version of QGIS. Last year I bought new laptop to replace my old Win 7 desktop pc. Installed latest version of QGIS. Looked good, opened a new shape file layer and drew some lines. Had a devil of a time moving old points or adding points in between old points. Booted up the Win 7 pc and ran old version. Hooray, back to normal!
-Dave
On Wednesday, March 2, 2022, 06:21:58 AM PST, Randal Hale rjhale@northrivergeographic.com wrote:
Good morning and welcome to the list:
If you’re going to bring a shapefile into QGIS do one of the three things:
- Use the browser. It’s like ArcCatalog and if you don’t see it - right click in the toolbar section and activate it. It should appear somewhere on the edge and you can navigate to your data.
- If you drag and drop your data into QGIS - just drag the shp. Not the prj or any of the other files.
- Use the data source manager icon and add it using the vector tools. Just add the shp. it will grab whatever other files it needs.
QGIS won’t lose/truncate your shapefiles. It will also open a ESRI File Based Database for viewing. You’ll need to convert it to shapefile/geopackage to editing.
Join the bigger QGIS User list for more news. QGIS (look in the documentation) has a free tutorial you can walk through. Email the list. Dig through youtube - the QGIS us group did a conference two years ago and there are some workshops up there for free.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7v5qfJYWxA
Enjoy - yell if you get stuck.
Randy
On Wednesday, March 2, 2022 12:00:38 AM EST Judith Kerman wrote:
I use Arcmaps as part of my volunteer work as a member of my local planning
board. I’ve learned to make good use of fairly low-level skills. I’m now
exploring QGIS as an alternative, especially so I train some other
volunteers in my town without a budget.
I find some things puzzling, and don’t know anyone expert I can ask
questions. For instance, right now, I’m trying to understand what
information is lost when I import an ArcGIS shapefile. QGIS won’t import
the .prj files, but the resulting QGIS vector still seems to have the
correct coordinates. Similar issues with raster files, and with the NY
State Orthographic files - I can only bring in a TIFF or a jp2, but the map
seems OK.
Where can I get tips at my admittedly low level of background. I doubt I
need high level analytical techniques, python, etc., to do useful work. But
I’d like to avoid dumb mistakes.
Suggestions welcome.
Sent from my iPad
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Randal Hale
North River Geographic Systems, Inc
https://www.northrivergeographic.com
(p) 423.653.3611
(e) rjhale@northrivergeographic.com
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