Hi Maning, Thanks for reporting the result of the training. I am really glad that you are organizing this training and LGU (Local Government Unit) are receptive on the use of FOSS.
Thanks. Regards, Noli On 3/28/11, maning sambale <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm back again from another FOSSGeo training on a remote town in the > Philippines. For a bit of background, we conducted a five-day basic > GIS training to a local government unit who is building its staff > capacity in using GIS for landuse planning and monitoring of LGU > initiated projects. The town is very remote and internet is > non-existent. > > Some observations and requests (?): > 1. Most of the core functionality of QGIS is complete enough for > basic GIS operations. However, you miss half of QGIS's power if you > don't have the cool user contributed plugins installed. Since > internet is not available in this town, what I did is to simply copy > my plugins folder into the other computers so that they can use some > of it. A cool feature would be an offline cache of all core and 3rd > party plugins. I don't know how this works, but basically a > possibility for a single laptop to connect to the internet and then > update QGIS plugins (including all dependencies). Back to the town > office, he/she can then copy the offline cache repo to other > computers. Similar to an offline debian repo. > > 2. After the initial install in windows (a mix of XP, Vista and Win7 > machines), when opening a vector layer, the default directory it > points to is the installed "Program Files/Quantum ..." directory. It > would be nice if it defaults to either the "GIS Database" created > directory or at least to the user's "My Documents" > > 3. They had some difficulty in the deleting vectors during editing. > Within the "Digitizing" toolbox, you can select a vector line and the > node tool to edit/delete the nodes/vertices. However, to delete a > line, you need to highlight a line using the "Select Feature" (this > tool is in the "Attribute" toolbox group ) and then the "Delete > Selected" (in the "Digitizing" toolbox). Note that the "Select > Feature" is not within the "Digitizing". Normally, the users tried to > find the "Select Feature" within the "Digitizing' group icons. > > 4. The best feature they liked is the possibility to plot and see > field collected photos in the map view. Using a GPS and digital > camera we geotagged the photo using another external program. Then > using photo2shape and evis plugin to visualize the photo location and > the photo itself. What's missing so far is the integration of > geotagging (writing the lat/lon into the exif) as another plugin. > > Overall, the participants are very satisfied with QGIS and they are > happy knowing that they can distribute and install the app to as many > computers within the town office (actually, the cost of the 5days > training is not even half of what an single arc license costs). :) > > > -- > cheers, > maning > ------------------------------------------------------ > "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden > wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ > blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
