university of edinburgh's first qgis training course
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The University of
Edinburgh’s First QGIS
Training Course
16th November 2015
Tom Armitage
@MapNav_Tom
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EDINA?
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EDINA?
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EDINA?
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Why?
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Why?
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Why?
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Why?
Digital HumanitiesHistory, Literature, Social Science,
Anthropology
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Why?
Digital HumanitiesHistory, Literature, Social Science,
Anthropology
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Why Now?
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Who For?
• Social scientists
• Historians
• Archaeologists
• Anthropologists
• Epidemiologists
• Agriculturalists
• Horticulturalists
• Aboriculturalists
• Psycologists
• Literature Studies
• Architects
• Mathematicians
• Biologists
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What do we teach?
Getting the
software
Adding Data to it
Making the data
look like a Map
Basic Geo Processing
Printing a map out
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What don’t we teach?
Spatial Analysis
Too many different bases to cover
Databases Too many different databases to cover
Any Questions
Point them to experts (Google +
group)
Point them to GIS stack
exchange
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What did we learn?
Yea!
How many Icons?
Vs
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What did we learn?
Yea!
Where?!??
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What did we learn?
ArcGIS is more often easier to use…
But“Simplicity can breed bad data management
practices and a poor understanding of what
you are doing.”
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What did we learn?
QGIS is Awesome!
No Buts“QGIS could do everything that we taught in the ArcGIS
practical, the software is free and open source, you can take it
anywhere in the world without restrictions …and the training
booklet is thinner too!”