[GIS] CSV with latitude and longitude to a spatial points with QGIS 1.8

Question

I have a CSV file with latitude and longitude of several addresses and a shapefile of a region. I want to plot the points of the CSV file into the shapefile. But I don't know how to transform these latitude and longitude columns into spatial points with QGIS 1.8

Answer 1

Enable the "Add Delimited Text Layer" plugin from the Plugins->Manage plugins... menu. See also the Import from CSV tutorial.