There is a lot of data with spatial components stored in spreadsheets and tables. One of the most common forms of tabular spatial data is x and y coordinates that are stored in a delimited text file. The data may have been collected with a GPS receiver, it may have been generated by a surveyor, or it may have been transcribed from topographic maps. Regardless, QGIS can map these coordinates as points by using the Add Delimited Text Layer tool 
. This tool can be found by navigating to Layer | Add Layer | Add Delimited Text Layer, or by using the Manage Layers toolbar.
Delimited text data is simply a table ...
