In this tutorial I’ll show you, how to combine text information
with spatial information using the open source software QGis.
You can easily download and install QGis from the following
Source: QGIS DOWNLOAD PAGE. We will join data given by a
shapefile with data provided by a csv file. what do you need -
Quantum GIS (examples shown in QGIS 1.8 - a shapefile and a csv-
file ( you can get both here ) approx. 5-10 minutes step 1 –
import the shapefile QGIS has three options to add data to your
layer table. - If you are aware of shapefiles and the
corresponding file types in an explorer you may simple drag the
shp-file to the layer table and that’s it. - The second possible
way is to use the interface: Layer >> Add Vector Layer. - The
third way is to use the button “Add vector Layer” Now choose the
correct encoding of the attribute values of the shapefile which.
Normally you are good in choosing UTF-8. Last step is to choose
the needed file: The result should look like this: step 2 –
adding the text information No