Re: [Qgis-user] getting started for a complete GIS beginner

2007-11-28 Thread John C. Tull
I would recommend the newer livecd rather than the older one. It has Qgis 0.9.0 preview and 0.8.1. The 0.8.0 stuff seems so retro now when I look at the screenshots. Amazing how quickly things have advanced with the Qgis project. Your website seems like the perfect source of information

Re: [Qgis-user] getting started for a complete GIS beginner

2007-11-27 Thread tom sgouros
Thank you Agus and Micha and Don for your explanations and patience. I understand the situation much better now. Agus is correct, of course, that one needs to learn the jargon of any field before progressing in it. But what's also important to note is that people new to a software project like

Re: [Qgis-user] getting started for a complete GIS beginner

2007-11-27 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi Maning I look through some of your tutorials - really good work! Regards Tim 2007/11/27, Maning Sambale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We are using QGIS and GRASS for our Basic GIS course: http://epmgis.wikispaces.com/ You might find some things useful there. I am also trying to make some

Re: [Qgis-user] getting started for a complete GIS beginner

2007-11-27 Thread maning sambale
Thanks! Slowly were building up the resources (exercises, notes, projects, references). We try to center our class towards free data, use of FOSS, collaborative content management, and Philippine geospatial applications. The course is more of vry basic understanding of GIS. There's really

[Qgis-user] getting started for a complete GIS beginner

2007-11-26 Thread Tom Sgouros
Hello all: Can anyone point me to an example of how to get started with QGIS? I was pointed to QGIS by a number of people who suggested it was an easy way to get started in GIS. So I downloaded it, and it works, but I still can't figure out how to do what I need to get done. I have an ESRI

Re: [Qgis-user] getting started for a complete GIS beginner

2007-11-26 Thread Don MacQueen
, etc... Cheers, Micha -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Sgouros Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 4:11 PM To: qgis-user@lists.qgis.org Subject: [Qgis-user] getting started for a complete GIS beginner Hello all

Re: [Qgis-user] getting started for a complete GIS beginner

2007-11-26 Thread tom sgouros
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Sgouros Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 4:11 PM To: qgis-user@lists.qgis.org Subject: [Qgis-user] getting started for a complete GIS beginner Hello all: Can anyone point me to an example of how to get started with QGIS? I was pointed to QGIS

Re: [Qgis-user] getting started for a complete GIS beginner

2007-11-26 Thread Micha Silver
tom sgouros wrote: Don: Thank you again for your help (in my new neighborhood). I guess I somehow had the idea that data corresponding to a town *was* geo-referenced, since I also have the coordinates of that town's outline, and maybe that was where I was driving myself crazy. What do

Re: [Qgis-user] getting started for a complete GIS beginner

2007-11-26 Thread John C. Tull
Tom, If you do some googling, you should be able to get to the point where you can ask less general questions. Some links below that may help you get started. Good luck. For translating some terms and concepts, this might be helpful: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-gis/ For

Re: [Qgis-user] getting started for a complete GIS beginner

2007-11-26 Thread Agustin Lobo
I think that the basic problem here is that QGis is GIS in development (note it is a 0.x version!), providing a good system for displaying and editing geospatial data (although there are few features still having to be integrated in the current version) and a python platform (a unique and