Absolute newbie to the field here. I did search for a few keywords prior to posting this and found nothing so I hope this isn’t “that” question that all newbs ask & everyone’s sick of…
With QField installed on an Android phone connected via bluetooth to a “…high-precision, full-constellation RTK GNSS receiver” (as it’s described on the product page), can I walk the perimeter of an area, recording ad-hoc location points to create a fully enclosed area, and save the data to a GPX, KML, TopoJSON, or Shapefile file please?
Or push the QField info into QGIS to create the file maybe? I have no idea what the functionality of each program is.
The normal workflow is to set up a project in QGIS, use QFieldCloud to package and synchronize it between devices, and QField on your mobile device to gather data.
Back in QGIS, you can then export your data as whatever you need.
You can technically also skip the Cloud if you want to bother with synchronizing files manually via cable.
I recommend the HappyMiniQ GNSS Receiver for a seamless QField integration.
And there are no stupid questions. If you need more information or help along the way, just ask! That’s what this community is for!
It seems I tried doing it the wrong way round. I created a project in QField, opened it, added a load of points, but had no way of saving them.
Everything I tried to get to somewhere other than editing said I needed get out of editing mode before doing that or I’d lose the information.
When I looked this up online, apparently, when editing a project, once you’ve added at least two points, a ‘Save’ button should appear, but it never did.
I’ll try starting from QGIS next time I get a chance to play with it.
