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On 24/08/2011 08:11, Jel Coward wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4E5487F2.5090908@wildmedic.org" type="cite">Hi
all
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Briefly - I am new to GIS and to QGIS. Running on ubuntu 10.04
LTS.
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Welcome<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:4E5487F2.5090908@wildmedic.org" type="cite">Motivation
- to be able to generate and manipulate maps (I work with Search
and Rescue in BC (by work, I mean, I do it for free :) - and a
desire to understand mapping better.
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I thought I would start with trying to get QGIS to open/display a
map of our local area.
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You probably want to begin working with the QGIS manual available:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://download.osgeo.org/qgis/doc/manual/qgis-1.7.0_user_guide_en.pdf">http://download.osgeo.org/qgis/doc/manual/qgis-1.7.0_user_guide_en.pdf</a><br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:4E5487F2.5090908@wildmedic.org" type="cite">I
went here
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/option/select.do?id=5460AA9D-54CD-8349-C95E-1A4D03172FDF&datasets=092j07">http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/option/select.do?id=5460AA9D-54CD-8349-C95E-1A4D03172FDF&datasets=092j07</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/option/select.do?id=5460AA9D-54CD-8349-C95E-1A4D03172FDF&datasets=092j07"><http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/option/select.do?id=5460AA9D-54CD-8349-C95E-1A4D03172FDF&datasets=092j07></a>
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Not the easiest dataset to begin with!<br>
Try for the start to display just these three layers (uncheck all
the others)<br>
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092j07_8_0_FO_1030009_1<br>
092j07_8_0_EN_1120009_1<br>
092j07_8_0_TO_1580009_2<br>
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Now double click on the last one, a point layer of towns. Go to the
"Labels" tab, and check "Display labels", then in the "Field
containing label" dropdown, select the field named NAMEEN. And ckick
Apply.<br>
Look any more friendly?<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:4E5487F2.5090908@wildmedic.org" type="cite">and
downloaded the ESRI shape file - which turns out to be a zip file
of a bunch of files.
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I opened QGIS to a blank project and tried opening all the files
via 'add vector layer'
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I got a list of layers, all checked, on the left and something
that might be a map on the right :-) Indeed I think I recognise
some shapes/patterns, but there are no labels for places, and
nothing really resembling a usable map.
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<blockquote cite="mid:4E5487F2.5090908@wildmedic.org" type="cite">........now
I know that this is my lack of understanding and not a qgis
failing. Can anyone help get me kick-started a little here
please? (or just get me kicked if that fees better :)
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Many thanks all - and many thanks to the devels and community for
producing this great open-source product.
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Cheers
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Jel Coward
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