QGIS/ARK Grid

ARK Grid

A QGIS Plugin to create and work with local site grids as commonly used in archaeology.

A grid wizard allows you to create grids from two known points, or from a known origin and baseline. Interactive tools are provided to convert between local coordinates and map coordinates.

For details on installation, support, licensing, and development, please see the main ARK QGIS plugins page

Project Wizard

New Grid Wizard

Grid Tools

Identify Grid Coordinates Tool

The Identify Grid Coordinates Tool allows you to click on the map and have the Map Point and Local Point coordinates displayed for the point clicked on.

Pan Map Tool

The Pan Map Tool will pan the map to the currently entered Map Point.

Paste Map Point Tool

The Paste Map Point Tool will paste a Map Point in WKT format from the clipboard. This can be used to copy a point from a layer in QGIS.

Add Point Tool

The Add Point Tool adds the current Map Point to the currently selected layer if it is a vector point layer in editing mode.

Update Layer Coordinates Tool

The Update Layer Coordinates Tool shows a dialog to let you update a point vector layer to either add the local coordinates as attribute fields or to set the map point from local coordinate attribute fields.

Run Settings Wizard Tool

The Run Settings Wizard Tool will run the settings wizard.

Copy Point Tool

The Copy Point Tool will copy the Map Point or Local Point to the clipboard in WKT format.