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I am trying to make a map in QGIS 2.0.1 ( running on my Mac OS X Maveriks) with the proportionally sized (graduated) pie-charts. I have started with the csv conversion to kml just to place my sample sites on the map, and I am wondering if I can just modify this csv adding some extra columns indicating i) sample size and ii) percentage of each sector for the pie chart. Or there is much less complicated way?

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Ok, after a few hours I found a solution:

  1. No need to convert a csv file to kml for downloading to the QGIS, use the "Add Delimiter Text Layer" tool directly on the csv instead;

  2. There is an annoying bug in Mac OS X - QGIS 2.0.1, which is not widely known (bug described here): when saving a csv in the TextWrangler in the saving options do not use "Line breaks: Classic Mac (CR)", but rather "Line breaks: UNIX (LF)" or "Line breaks: Windows (CRLF)", the Encoding was "Unicode (UT-8)" in my case;

  3. When you import your csv to the QGIS described in 1), created in the manner described in 2), go to "Properties" > "Diagrams" > click "Display Diagrams" > choose "Piecharts" in the "Diagram type" > in the "Appearence" menu go to "Attributes" add the csv's columns you would like to build your pie chart with > in the "Size" unflag the "Fixed size" and voila!

Hope it will save someone's time struggling with mapping in QGIS.

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