Hi Manning, Something else you might consider showing is the geo-referencer. I found a lot of interest in this from researchers and students at the zoo, many of whom have old images they want to extract data from.
- Chris Dr Chris Yesson Postdoctoral Researcher Institute of Zoology Zoological Society of London Regent's Park London NW1 4RY 020 7449 6267 http://www.zsl.org/chrisyesson/ http://eu-fp7-coralfish.net/ ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:30:07 +0000 From: Giovanni Manghi <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for an intro to QGIS for beginners (mostly wildlife ecologists and conservationists) To: maning sambale <[email protected]> Cc: qgis-user <[email protected]> Message-ID: <1292412607.3171.20.ca...@sibirica> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hi Maning, wildlife biologist and conservationists here! ;) I would suggest you to show also the gps tools (downloading/uploading waypoints/tracks from gps units) and the live gps tracking. cheers -- Giovanni -- On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 19:24 +0800, maning sambale wrote: > Hi, > > I am requested to present and conduct a brief workshop (3 hours) to a > symposium mostly composed of wildlife ecologists and conservationists. > > My initial plan is to: > - present basic qgis interface > - create simple point data (from sampling transect plots using > delimited text plugin) > - create map layouts (map composer) and simple webmaps (openlayers plugin) > - promote foss-geo philosophies (along the side) > > I am aware that some users here are on a similar field (wildlife > ecology and conservation), I am posting to collect more ideas on what > specific exercises I should prepare for these audience. > Advance thanks! The Zoological Society of London is incorporated by Royal Charter Principal Office England. Company Number RC000749 Registered address: Regent's Park, London, England NW1 4RY Registered Charity in England and Wales no. 208728 _________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been sent in confidence to the named addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, you must not disclose or distribute it in any form, and you are asked to contact the sender immediately. Views or opinions expressed in this communication may not be those of The Zoological Society of London and, therefore, The Zoological Society of London does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. The recipient(s) must be aware that e-mail is not a secure communication medium and that the contents of this mail may have been altered by a third party in transit. If you have any issues regarding this mail please contact: [email protected]. ___________________________________________________________________________ This message has been scanned for viruses by MailControl, a service from BlackSpider Technologies. _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
