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OS OPENDATA MASTERCLASS

Geovation Information Developer/Consultancy team:

Clive MelleneyGemma McAusland (Scotland)

Ian Bennett Ilhan Coskun

Kealan FreemanMagdalena Low (Scotland)

Phil Bridges

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WHAT’S IN STORE?

• Water themed Masterclass around flooding

• Step-by-step instructions

• Everything is open!

• Ordnance Survey, Environment Agency, Land

Registry & More

• Demonstrate simple analysis with free tools & data

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WHAT’S IN THE BOOKLET PROVIDED?

• There are a range of materials within the booklet that can help

you boost your GIS knowledge & open up new sources of data

• You will learn basic GIS analytics

• There are two sections highlighting both water related data &

general open data sources

• An appendix explaining how to download & style OS OpenData

from scratch

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STUCK? NO PROBLEM!

• We’re here to help, just raise your hand!

• Various QGIS Project Files

• Pre-Made Shapefiles

• QMLs provided for styling

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IMPORTANT CONTENT TO NOTE

• This is a flexible class, choose to stick to the class or do your own thing.

• Water Themed Open Data

• Other Important Links Relating to Open Data Section

• QGIS 3D Capability using OS Terrain50 if you finish the Masterclass

• Third Party Data QGIS File: Contains big range of datasets to take a look

at. • Everything here is compatible with QGIS versions 2.4. QGIS Install files

are available on your memory stick too!

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All materials are provided on the memory stick

Any Questions, just ask!

FURTHER RESOURCES

Blogshttp://anitagraser.com/http://nathanw.net/http://nyalldawson.net/

Workshopshttps://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/innovate/masterclasses/http://schoolofdata.org/courses/introduction-to-gis/?utm_content=bufferf96ad&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Map inspirationhttps://www.flickr.com/groups/qgis/pool/

ONLINE COMMUNITY SUPPORT

http://gis.stackexchange.com/

QGIS USER GROUP

A UK-wide user group with regional chapters

Online support via Google+ and blog

Regular meetingsusually every 6 months……spaces get booked up extremely fast!

OTHER INFORMATION TO NOTEPage 20:There was an error with the pre-prepared project file “TewkesburyCaseStudy_Polygons.qgis” at this stage, which may have resulted in you getting an error when applying the code to update the postcodes.This has now been amended and if you wish to download the amended data, within folder ‘LandReg&CodePoint’, please do so here: http://ow.ly/X7iSG

Page 21:Copy and paste the code to update the postcode from the text file “VoronoiPolygon_FieldCalculatorCode” supplied in the main folder and not the version in the pdf booklet as it won’t work.

Other:The pdf version of the booklet within your folder may contain additional information that is not included in the printed version you were supplied with:• List of suggested resources for the links of where to find good sources of Open Data (page 33 of pdf

booklet)• Additional tutorial on QGIS 3D Capability using OS Terrain 50 and other visualisations of water-

related data in QGIS (page 31,32 of pdf booklet)

Gemma McAuslandGemma.mcausland@os.uk07802 647857