Plugins coordinate capture

Coordinate Capture Plugin

The coordinate capture plugin is easy to use and provides the ability to display coordinates on the map canvas for two selected Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS). <P>

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Figure: Coordinate Cature Plugin

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1. Start QGIS, select mActionOptionsProject Properties from the Settings (KDE, Windows) or File (Gnome, OSX) menu and click on the Projection tab. As an alternative you you can also click on the mIconProjectionEnabledprojector icon in the lower right-hand corner of the statusbar.
2. Click on the Enable on the fly projection checkbox and select a projected coordinate system of your choice (see also Section <A HREF="#label_projections"><IMG ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="1" ALT="[*]" SRC="/usr/share/latex2html/icons/crossref.png"></A>).
3. Load the coordinate capture plugin in the Plugin Manager (see Section <A HREF="#sec:load_core_plugin"><IMG ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="1" ALT="[*]" SRC="/usr/share/latex2html/icons/crossref.png"></A>) and ensure that the dialog is visible by going to View > Panels and ensuring that Coordinate Capture is enabled. The cordinate capture dialog appears as shown in Figure <A HREF="#fig:coordinate_capture_dialog">45</A>.
4. Click on the geographicClick to the select the CRS to use for coordinate display icon and select a different CRS from the one you selected above.
5. To start capturing coordinates, click on Start capture. You can now click anywhere on the map canvas and the plugin will show the coordinates for both of your selected CRS.
6. To enable mouse coordinate tracking click the trackingmouse tracking icon.
7. You can also copy selected coordinates to the clipboard.

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