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I am trying to add a delimited text layer that has 3 columns: the name of the point, lat and long. In decimals. The interface I have to add this on QGIS is different from what I ve seen. I have to TYPE in what delimiter I'm using, and then click on "parse" for QGIS to delimitate the text file properly. I've tried using different delimiters, commas, tabs, space, etc, but whichever I use QGIS doesn't do it properly, and so it doesn't recognize my 3 different columns, and I can't select lat for the x coordinate; and long for the y coordinates. It proposes the entire header row as the "x field" AND the "y field". Has anybody used this version of QGIS and face this problem? I've tried saving my excel file as text unicode, tab delimited, csv etc, none of them worked.

Here is my entire document:

 Point Lat Long 
 AIGR -21.13667 55.31083 
 BOUC -21.03917 55.44944 
 BRI -21.24583 55.34222 
 C1CENT -21.22667 55.26361 
 C2CENT -21.16389 55.34056 
 C3CENT -21.19528 55.28694 
 C4CENT -21.05972 55.26167 
 C5CENT -21.1375 55.44361 
 C6CENT -21.11361 55.29417 
 CLH -21.16528 55.32056 
 ERM -21.15556 55.37944
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Please get QGIS 1.8. QGIS 1.1 is very old. Also paste the first few lines of your CSV file here so we can have a look. Maybe there are obvious problems with it. – underdark♦ Mar 22 at 9:35
I would like to get the newer version but my work computer; is a mac os x 10.5.8. QGIS apparently needs a newer version. Here is my entire document:Point Lat Long AIGR -21.13667 55.31083 BOUC -21.03917 55.44944 BRI -21.24583 55.34222 C1CENT -21.22667 55.26361 C2CENT -21.16389 55.34056 C3CENT -21.19528 55.28694 C4CENT -21.05972 55.26167 C5CENT -21.1375 55.44361 C6CENT -21.11361 55.29417 CLH -21.16528 55.32056 ERM -21.15556 55.37944 – Nathalie Verlinden Mar 22 at 9:56
There are few enough points that you could edit this in a text file. Try replacing all spaces with a comma and putting each point set on a new line (The top line being your titles also with comma delimiters). Save it as plain text with the CSV extention and inport it to QGIS as a CSV (that's "comma separated values" so you'll choose comma as the delimiter). – Fred Mar 22 at 12:53
You're next hurdle to seeing your data, if your not already familiar, is knowing which Coordinate Reference System your data uses. It took me some banging around to get my layers to play nice (ie. superpose perfectly) so if you have multiple layers be thorough with your understanding of the QGIS reprojection methods. Other wise one layer may be in Europe while another might be in the Atlantic Ocean. – Fred Mar 22 at 13:04
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I think the data is ok, the add text delimited layer plugin allows you to use spaces as a field separator... – Gerardo Jimenez Mar 22 at 13:50
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I agree with underdark, you must have Lisboa. Your data seems to be fine, just try to include just one space separating the fields (if you choose space as a separator). I made an experiment and Lisboa has no problem recognizing the data

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As you can see in the image I used space as a field delimiter. This is a section of your data with google satellite (open layers plugin)

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Is this ok? the points are in an island near Madagascar...

Hope it helps Gerardo

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Nathalie has already explained why she isn't running 1.8.0, and it isn't an issue with multiple spaces. – GeoKevin Mar 23 at 1:36

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