I would like to second this sentiment. As someone who has learned the ARC way with geodatabases and is looking more at the open source world (and trying to get more people into it also!!) this would be a tremendous benefit. I have looked at the desktop GIS book, and am still overwhelmed learning 2 new large pieces of software at once. QGIS is fairly easy to pick up, but the whole POSTGRE/ POSTGIS part is intimidating...
I know that people are busy working on the QGIS project, but if someone were to take the time and make a beginner's guide to the most common/useful commands and how to setup/integrate into QGIS, I feel it would be EXTREMELY beneficial to both projects.... and most of all give you the competitive leg up on other OS GIS products and a larger chunk of users away from the larger way more expensive program that most people use. Just a humble thought to help some of us straddling the fence of trying to learn FOSS software instead of being intimidated and giving up.... doug EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me > Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:28:17 -0700 > From: "John C. Tull" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Edit UI > To: Mike Toews <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > Mike and others, > > There have been some useful posts recently about leveraging the power of > postgis in qgis. What would be great is if someone or several people with > postgis skills could produce some tutorials on how postgis can be used in > qgis (beyond simply having a postgis database). Unfortunately, even a useful > postgis query in the email list without a real-world example of > implementation can be very intimidating or confusing for most users as sql is > a challenge to the uninitiated. Ideally, a series of video or well-imaged > written tutorials can be made that will walk people through some useful > postgis capabilities. > > Examples that would be helpful include setting up the > triggers/views/functions that you alluded to below, performing intersections > or other geometry calculations that can generate new postgis tables, adding > area or length calculations to existing polygons in an auto-update field (is > that possible?), etc. > > Having the visual tutorials for leveraging the power of postgis in qgis would > be a tremendous boon to the qgis community, and it would help set qgis apart > from other gis software. Many people would benefit from this, and I include > myself as one of the potential beneficiaries. > > I hope that you or others may be able to rise to this qgis community need. If > anyone knows of existing postgis/qgis tutorials, let's get a list in the wiki > so people can find them easily. > > Regards, > John >
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