Thank you very much Simon. No offense at all, by the contrary, very helpful and very grateful for your message.
I will check all the stuff you suggested. I teach landscape ecology and wildlife habitat evaluation for master students, I use R for some topics, but I want use more QGIS and stay away from commercial software. Our students (from all over Latin America) usually work under very restrictive budgets. Best, Manuel 2012/7/16 Simon Cropper <[email protected]> > Manuel, > > I am not aware of any specific tutorials for doing this work in QGIS. > > No offense but these tasks are relatively basic. Your comment "I found > this task kind of difficult to do in QGIS" is suggestive that you have > difficulty in either basic GIS concepts or extrapolating your existing > knowledge from a commercial package to QGIS. > > *Assuming you stick with QGIS* > > Micha Silver has provided a tutorial called "GIS basics with Quantum GIS" > http://www.osgeo.org/node/1058 that may help you master the basics. > > The QGIS website has a great section called "How do I do that in QGIS?" > that covers alot of material http://hub.qgis.org/projects/** > quantum-gis/wiki/How_do_I_do_**that_in_QGIS#How-do-I-do-that-**in-QGIS<http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/wiki/How_do_I_do_that_in_QGIS#How-do-I-do-that-in-QGIS>. > Note the large number of videos on youtube -- sometimes seeing it done can > help. > > *Assuming you are considering an alternative* > > The OSGeo Educational Content Inventory also has a wide variety of other > educational material available that might also help fill in the gaps. > http://www.osgeo.org/**educational_content<http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content> > > Finally, QGIS is not the only fosGIS out there. Check out what is on offer > on the LiveDVD > (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/**Live_GIS_Disc<http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc> > ). > > Personally, I found using gvSIG relatively easy when moving from ArcView. > Unfortunately the bulk of the tutorials are in Spanish; unlike QGIS which > are predominantly in English. See my website for details and a list of > ecological tutorials I have prepared to date. > > *Final Comment* > > All this material is predicated by the premise that you actually know what > things are called. Reprojection and transformation is a good example. > Projection, SRS and CRS another. When stuck, posing a problem on the forums > can help as others can help you with terminology and suggest methods to > solve you problems. > > I hope this helps. > > > On 17/07/12 11:50, Manuel Spínola wrote: > >> What I am trying to do is a very common task in landscape ecology. The >> buffer could be considered a landscape for some species and some metrics >> could be obtained for these "landscapes", however, I found this task >> kind of difficult to do in QGIS. Any input on this? Is there any >> oriented landscape ecology tutorial for QGIS. >> > > > [snip] > > > -- > Cheers Simon > > Simon Cropper - Open Content Creator > > Free and Open Source Software Workflow Guides > ------------------------------**------------------------------ > Introduction > http://www.fossworkflowguides.**com<http://www.fossworkflowguides.com> > GIS Packages > http://www.fossworkflowguides.**com/gis<http://www.fossworkflowguides.com/gis> > bash / Python > http://www.fossworkflowguides.**com/scripting<http://www.fossworkflowguides.com/scripting> > > > -- *Manuel Spínola, Ph.D.* Instituto Internacional en Conservación y Manejo de Vida Silvestre Universidad Nacional Apartado 1350-3000 Heredia COSTA RICA [email protected] [email protected] Teléfono: (506) 2277-3598 Fax: (506) 2237-7036 Personal website: Lobito de río <https://sites.google.com/site/lobitoderio/> Institutional website: ICOMVIS <http://www.icomvis.una.ac.cr/>
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