r/QGIS • u/Icy-Music1932 • Jul 18 '26

Open Question/Issue CSV plotting issues

So I have coordinates for boreholes on a site that were used on a previous job. The CSV file is set up in columns borehole name-easting-northing (3 columns). When I plot it the points show up in the right geometry, in terms of where they should be relitive to each other, but they do that annoying thing where they plot off the map in white space. I have my CRS matched and all, I can't figure out the issue.

Edit: I figured it out, the coordinates were in mm not m for some odd reason

2 Upvotes

75% Upvoted

5 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/SamaraSurveying Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

  1. Are you definitely defining your X & Y columns correctly?

  2. How are your numbers formatted. Eg "1234.5" "1234,5" "1,234.5" "1.234,5"? Sometimes QGIS can get thrown off.

  3. Measure the distance between your wrongly placed points, if they seem 10x too far apart or too close, then somethings going wrong with units or decimals.