[Qgis-user] Ideas for an intro to QGIS for beginners (mostly wildlife ecologists and conservationists)

[Giovanni Manghi]

Hi Maning,
wildlife biologist and conservationists here! ;)

I would suggest you to show also the gps tools (downloading/uploading
waypoints/tracks from gps units) and the live gps tracking.

cheers

-- Giovanni --



On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 19:24 +0800, maning sambale wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am requested to present and conduct a brief workshop (3 hours) to a
> symposium mostly composed of wildlife ecologists and conservationists.
> 
> My initial plan is to:
>  - present basic qgis interface
>  - create simple point data (from sampling transect plots using
> delimited text plugin)
>  - create map layouts (map composer) and simple webmaps (openlayers plugin)
>  - promote foss-geo philosophies (along the side)
> 
> I am aware that some users here are on a similar field (wildlife
> ecology and conservation), I am posting to collect more ideas on what
> specific exercises I should prepare for these audience.
>  Advance thanks!