A nice QGIS tutorial by Lex Berman

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Lex Berman from Harvard just dropped me a nice email with a link to an interactive QGIS tutorial he has created. The tutorial is one of the nicest I have seen – each section is detailed with text, screenshots and howto videos.  I thought I would make a quick post about it here so the… Read more »

FOSS GIS learning resources

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I quite often get requests for my training materials and learning materials for FOSSGIS in general. Last week I was sent an email from The University of Nottingham, UK, who have been setting up a portal to collate FOSS GIS learning resources. The portal is here http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/ I haven’t gone through the portal in depth, but… Read more »

QGIS Training in Dar Es Salaam

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I just got back from another week away, training people to use QGIS in Tanzania. There are few things more rewarding in life for a QGIS developer that looking out over a class of 30 trainees new to GIS (and QGIS) eagerly absorbing everything you have got to show them about your favourite FOSS GIS…. Read more »

FOSS GIS presentation at Cape Tech

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Things have been busy – I just back from training course in Tanzania, and last week I was giving a lecture and practical at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Lecturer Kevin Musungu from the Civil Engineering and Surveying Department at Cape Technikon asked us to give a presentation on open source GIS after meeting… Read more »

Introduction to PostGIS

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Horst and I are spending the week up in Johannesburg at the Satellite Applications Center in Hartebeeshoek. We are doing yet another week long training course (I hope I’m not working the poor guy too hard ). This time we are doing: – Two days QGIS (with a little GRASS) – One day PostGIS -… Read more »