====== QGIS ======

===== Create a Shape file with QGIS =====
   - Download QGIS
   - Install QGIS with default options
   - Start QGIS Desktop
   - Select from the Menu, Plugins->Manage and install
        - Search for OpenLayers plugin
        - Select OpenLayers plugin and press "install plugin"
        - Close dialog
   - Select from the Menu, Web->OpenLayers plugin->OpenStreetMap->OpenStreetMap
   - Select from the Menu, Layer->Create Layer->New shapefile layer
        - Select type "Line"
        - Select CRS: EPSG:4326, WGS84
        - Select Encoding: UTF-8
        - Add data field with the name "name", type text, length 80
        - Add more data fields as needed
        - Press ok
        - Save the new shapefile (e.g. electric_lines.shp) on a location/directory of your choice
   - In the "Layers Panels", the layer "electric_lines" should appear
        - right-click on "electric_lines" and select "toggle editing"
   - In the "Edit" toolbar, press "Add feature" button
        - left-click on the map to add a new point to the line
        - right-click to end editing
        - “Add feature" dialog appears
        - Enter the required fields/attributes for the feature (e.g. power line identifier/number, name, etc)
   - Repeat "Add feature" step for more features
   - After the "last edit", right-click on the layer (in layers panel) and select "Save Layer Edits" and afterwards unselect "Toggle Editing"
   - QGIS will ask if you want to save the changes to the layer file.
        
WARNING: Without this last step the changed/added/deleted feature will not be commited to the shapefile and all changes are lost when QGIS is closed.