Overview

QGIS Markers is a QGIS plugin for placing markers. Markers contain useful metadata when inspected, and the QGIS Markers log lists longitude,latitude pairs for easy copying.

Installation

1. Install QGIS.
2. Clone this repo into ~/.qgis2/python/plugins/.
3. Start QGIS.
4. Check Plugins->Manage and Install Plugins...->QGIS Markers.

Usage

Enable the marker tool as you would the built-in panning tool -- either click the marker tool icon (), or enable it through Plugins->Markers->Temporary Markers.

View marker metadata with the Identify Feature tool.

View logged longitude,latitude pairs through View->Panels->Log Messages Panel under the QGISMarkers tab.

Compiling Resources

If icon PNGs change, rebuild resources_rc.py with:

make clean
make compile

Links

• QGIS API
• Developing Python QGIS Plugins
• World Geodesic System: WGS 84 / EPSG:4326
• EPSG:4326
• EPSG:3857