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What?

Our second OSGeo local chapter meet up! We will chew the cud, show you some cool stuff and start to get people familiar with the brilliant FOSS GeoSpatial products out there, specifically QGIS on this occasion!

We'll go through installing QGIS and getting it to a point where you can have fun (and get your job done) with it.

How Much?

There will be a door charge of R250 to cover costs, lunch and refreshments. That and an open mind are all you need to bring.

Where?

St Davids Marist Inanda College
36 Rivonia Rd
Inanda
Sandton

Map and Directions

NB: We'll be in the Prep School computer lab.

When?

Saturday June 27th 2009
QGIS course: 08h30 to 15h30
includes lunch and refreshments

Who

Your friendly presenters for the day will be:

Tim Sutton (tim at linfiniti.com) - QGIS hacker and FOSS GIS junkie extraordinaire. Tim eats Weetbix for breakfast because it sounds like Linux. He once rewrote Nkosi Sikelela in C++ because he was feeling patriotic.
Graeme McFerren - (graeme.mcferren at gmail.com) - GIS researcher and FOSS4G user. Mmm, aspire to be like Tim then.
Gavin Fleming (gavinjfleming at gmail dot com) - I enjoy my daily FOSS4G fix and telling people how great it was. I'm a 'geoinformation scientist' at Mintek and love to see cutting edge and useful geospatial applications emerging.
Brendon Wolff-Piggott - (brendon at integratedgeodata.co.za) - Water resources consultant and FOSS GIS enthusiast. I wish there were more hours in the day to keep up with FOSS4G!

RSVP

Let gavinjfleming at gmail dot com know if you're coming as numbers are limited.

Programme and notes

Be there in time for a 8h30 start
this programme is subject to change and participant input right to the last minute!

Welcome, introductions and overview

Let's make a map - First steps with QGIS

Loading and viewing data - common data formats, symbolisation. Tips and tricks to enhance image display.

Where to get free spatial data - Surveys and Mapping, Demarcation Board, OpenStreetMap, GPS, etc. Check out South_African_Geodata

Menus and Toolbars

Plugins

Working with attributes

Making changes to the map

Editing spatial data in QGIS

Projection basics

Tea

Setting up a QGIS Project

Toolbars and plug-ins revisited

KML and Google Earth

Using QGIS with a spatial database (PostGIS)

Lunch

Using Actions

QGIS and Web GIS

Advanced analysis with QGIS

QGIS with GRASS and R

GRASS is a sophisticated standalone GIS package which can also be accessed through QGIS. It installs with QGIS by default.

R is a comprehensive statistics package that can be also accessed through QGIS.

Plugins - Carson Farmer's plugins with R, etc.

break

Introduction to the Python console

The Python API

Audience Selections

Show off session

Here we can do some whizz bang demo stuff that we don't have time to do in workshop format but that will give you some hints as to what else can be achieved.

e.g. Terrain modelling and drapes.

General

Questions and answers. What you can do next. Resources. Possibly some in-depth examples based on frequent questions. What would you like to see at future workshops?

Your assessment of the workshop

Tell us what you thought!

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 = What? =
-Our first OSGeo local chapter meet up! We will chew the cud, show you some cool stuff and start to get people familiar with the brilliant FOSS GeoSpatial products out there!
+Our second OSGeo local chapter meet up! We will chew the cud, show you some cool stuff and start to get people familiar with the brilliant FOSS GeoSpatial products out there, specifically QGIS on this occasion!
-We'll go through installing some software and getting it to a point where you can have fun with it.
+We'll go through installing QGIS and getting it to a point where you can have fun (and get your job done) with it.
 = How Much? =
-There will be a door charge of R250 to cover costs & refreshments. That and an open mind are all you need to bring.
+There will be a door charge of R250 to cover costs, lunch and refreshments. That and an open mind are all you need to bring.
 = Where? =
@@ Line 39: / Line 39: @@
 Let gavinjfleming at gmail dot com know if you're coming as numbers are limited.
+= Programme and notes =
-= Programme in a nutshell =
 * Be there in time for a 8h30 start
+* this programme is subject to change and participant input right to the last minute!
-QGIS inside out
+== Welcome, introductions and overview ==
-Introduction: Purpose of the workshop and overview of QGIS.
-Demo all QGIS functionality - every menu item, button and plugin.
+== Let's make a map - First steps with QGIS ==
 Loading and viewing data - common data formats, symbolisation.  Tips and tricks to enhance image display.
-Attribute viewing and management.  Switching from attribute query to spatial selection and vice versa.
+Where to get free spatial data - Surveys and Mapping, Demarcation Board, OpenStreetMap, GPS, etc. Check out [[South_African_Geodata]]
-Editing spatial data in QGIS.
+===Menus and Toolbars===
-* Tea break
+===Plugins===
-Setting up a QGIS Project.  Explain all the settings.  Which ones are used most.  Projections basics.
+== Working with attributes ==
-Toolbars and plug-ins revisited.
+== Making changes to the map ==
-KML and Google Earth.
+==Editing spatial data in QGIS==
-Using with PostGIS - SPIT.
+==Projection basics==
-Where to get free spatial data - S-G, OpenStreetMaps, Tracks for Africa (?), GPS
-* Lunch
-Using QGIS to help set up Web GIS
-Incl things like Actions, intro to Python console and perhaps API.
-Special section on 'advanced analysis with QGIS' - GRASS, Carson Farmer's
-plugins with R, etc.
-Then spend a bit more time at the end revisiting areas that the audiences
-wants.
-'''9. Show off session'''
-Here we can do some whizz bang demo stuff that we don't have time to do in  workshop format but that will give you some hints as to what else can be achieved.
-Terrain modelling and drapes.
-'''10. General'''
-Questions and answers.  What you can do next.  Resources.  Possibly some in-depth examples based on frequent questions.  What would you like to see at future workshops?
-'''11. Your assessment of the workshop'''
-Tell us what you thought!
-= Workshop Notes =
-== Welcome, introductions and overview ==
-== Lets make a map - First steps with QGIS ==
-== Working with attributes ==
-== Making changes to the map ==
 * Tea
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 == KML and Google Earth ==
-== Using with QGIS with PostGIS ==
+== Using QGIS with a spatial database (PostGIS) ==
 * Lunch
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 == QGIS and Web GIS ==
+== Advanced analysis with QGIS ==
+==QGIS with GRASS and R==
+GRASS is a sophisticated standalone GIS package which can also be accessed through QGIS. It installs with QGIS by default.
+R is a comprehensive statistics package that can be also accessed through QGIS.
+===Plugins - Carson Farmer's plugins with R, etc.===
+* break
 == Introduction to the Python console ==
@@ Line 127: / Line 94: @@
 == The Python API ==
-== Advanced analysis with QGIS ==
+== Audience Selections ==
+== Show off session ==
+Here we can do some whizz bang demo stuff that we don't have time to do in  workshop format but that will give you some hints as to what else can be achieved.
+e.g. Terrain modelling and drapes.
-GRASS
+==General==
-Plugins - Carson Farmer's plugins with R, etc.
+Questions and answers.  What you can do next.  Resources.  Possibly some in-depth examples based on frequent questions.  What would you like to see at future workshops?
-== Audience Selections ==
+==Your assessment of the workshop==
+Tell us what you thought!
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