I’m currently working on a project where I need to identify all the intersecting points within a grid on the USA map. My objective is to divide the map into 1km square sections and obtain the latitude and longitude coordinates of the four corners of each square.

My current approach involves using QGIS to generate a 0.01-degree grid covering the entire continental US territory. Initially, I followed a tutorial on creating a polygonal grid for the entire world. After that, I adapted the steps to focus solely on the US by importing the USA Shapefile from Census.gov. However, I’ve encountered an issue when attempting to extract the coordinates of the grid intersections. Unfortunately, the method I’ve been using to get lat, lng from the points isn’t returning valid latitude and longitude pairs.

I’d greatly appreciate any suggestions or alternative methods for accurately mapping the entire continental US using such grid points. Thank you!