[Qgis-community-team] Training manual: base data

[George Irwin]

Hi All,

The long-term plan is to create a website/webpage where a localised Training Manual can be auto-generated and downloaded based on co-ordinates entered by the user. The idea would be that all the OSM/DTM data would be downloaded from the sources mentioned in the manual and packaged together with the manual in HTML/PDF format with town names etc in place.

However, this obviously fairly ambitious, both in terms of hardware requirements (given that building the docs is pretty CPU intensive), as well as the development time required to develop such a system. 

We did look at solutions which might be easier/quicker to implement now, but everything we considered came up against problems/hurdles at some point in the process (from the user’s perspective). The current solution is therefore the “base” solution, which, as you’ve rightly pointed out, isn’t ideal. It is possible we missed a potential solution though.

Having said that, in my (very humble) opinion, a localised dataset for a training manual is a “nice-to-have” and that anyone who might want localised data is also likely to be a trainer (or at least someone who is very familiar with QGIS). It’s also likely that they would be putting together a training package for a group of people/students and would probably re-use their localised manual. With those very broad assumptions in mind, the not-so-straightforward process of localising the training manual becomes a bit less of a concern? Of course, I could be completely wrong in those assumptions! 

Happy to get involved if anyone has any good ideas as to how to improve.

George


George Irwin
Project and Client Manager
Linfiniti Consulting
http://www.linfiniti.com
+27 (0)76 013 6355
Skype: georgeirwin22


On 14 Apr 2014, at 14:28, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> I understand the idea behind an unified Training Manual was to start
> from localized data. Currently, getting them is rather complicated (as
> Matteo just pointed out, downloading from OSM is not as straightforward
> as it should be). In addition to OSM vector data, we would need at least
> one DTM and one orthophoto (or satellite image).
> Anyone has suggestions, or plans to improve this?
> 
> All the best.
> -- 
> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
> QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html
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