Geography Reference
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Figure 8.5: Track and waypoint loaded from GPS unit
a backdrop for our data. We've also labeled our lonely little waypoint
using the data that came with it from the GPS, in this case, BEAR.
Once loaded into QGIS, the GPX data behaves just like any other layer.
You can label it, change the symbol type and colors, and rename it
in the legend. In case you're wondering, we called the waypoint BEAR
because it happens to be the point in Canada where we saw a nice fat
black bear feasting on berries. My plan was to geotag the pictures I
took on our road trip, but it didn't really work out that way. But that's
another story. . . .
Loading and Viewing Data
So far, we have pulled the data from our GPS unit, displayed it, and
in the process created a GPX file on disk. The next time we want to
display it, we don't have to pull it off the GPS again (well we could, but
only if we felt we needed the practice). We already have the file saved to
diskā€”to load it we again use the GPS plugin. You can't load a GPX file
into QGIS without it.
 
 
 
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