[Qgis-user] Getting landuse information for several circular polygons

[Manuel Spínola]

Thank you very much Simon.

No offense at all, by the contrary, very helpful and very grateful for your
message.

I will check all the stuff you suggested.

I teach landscape ecology and wildlife habitat evaluation for master
students, I use R for some topics, but I want use more QGIS and stay away
from commercial software.  Our students (from all over Latin America)
usually work under very restrictive budgets.

Best,

Manuel

2012/7/16 Simon Cropper <simoncropper at fossworkflowguides.com>

> Manuel,
>
> I am not aware of any specific tutorials for doing this work in QGIS.
>
> No offense but these tasks are relatively basic. Your comment "I found
> this task kind of difficult to do in QGIS" is suggestive that you have
> difficulty in either basic GIS concepts or extrapolating your existing
> knowledge from a commercial package to QGIS.
>
> *Assuming you stick with QGIS*
>
> Micha Silver has provided a tutorial called "GIS basics with Quantum GIS"
> http://www.osgeo.org/node/1058 that may help you master the basics.
>
> The QGIS website has a great section called "How do I do that in QGIS?"
> that covers alot of material http://hub.qgis.org/projects/**
> quantum-gis/wiki/How_do_I_do_**that_in_QGIS#How-do-I-do-that-**in-QGIS<http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/wiki/How_do_I_do_that_in_QGIS#How-do-I-do-that-in-QGIS>.
> Note the large number of videos on youtube -- sometimes seeing it done can
> help.
>
> *Assuming you are considering an alternative*
>
> The OSGeo Educational Content Inventory also has a wide variety of other
> educational material available that might also help fill in the gaps.
> http://www.osgeo.org/**educational_content<http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content>
>
> Finally, QGIS is not the only fosGIS out there. Check out what is on offer
> on the LiveDVD (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/**Live_GIS_Disc<http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc>
> ).
>
> Personally, I found using gvSIG relatively easy when moving from ArcView.
> Unfortunately the bulk of the tutorials are in Spanish; unlike QGIS which
> are predominantly in English. See my website for details and a list of
> ecological tutorials I have prepared to date.
>
> *Final Comment*
>
> All this material is predicated by the premise that you actually know what
> things are called. Reprojection and transformation is a good example.
> Projection, SRS and CRS another. When stuck, posing a problem on the forums
> can help as others can help you with terminology and suggest methods to
> solve you problems.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
>
> On 17/07/12 11:50, Manuel Spínola wrote:
>
>> What I am trying to do is a very common task in landscape ecology.  The
>> buffer could be considered a landscape for some species and some metrics
>> could be obtained for these "landscapes", however, I found this task
>> kind of difficult to do in QGIS.  Any input on this?  Is there any
>> oriented landscape ecology tutorial for QGIS.
>>
>
>
> [snip]
>
>
> --
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>
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