[Qgis-user] Public Sector Mapping Agreement

[Noli Sicad]

Hi Andrew,

> To encourage take-up for both GIS and QGIS, it may help if there were
> tutorials to take a new user of GIS through the steps to download data from
> Ordnance Survey (probably only in GZ format for the topology layers).
> To date I've been getting data as shapefiles - when I last tried (an earlier
> version) QGIS wouldn't load .gz and the support for .gml may have been
> incomplete.
> Is anyone else using Ordnance Survey .gz files directly?
> Would the best advice for users new to GIS be to convert to shapefiles or
> use a database (something I've not yet managed to do)?
> Are there any UK users involved with town or parish councils?

I think it would be wise to put an example of this OS gz file so we
can try if we can open it with QGIS. Just a very simple example of the
file :-).

Then, post the URL where we can  download it.

Noli