<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Priyank</div><div><br></div><div>
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Here are my tips
</div><div><b>Training</b><br></div><div>There is so much online stuff for QGIS. Here are some links:</div><div><a href="https://www.qgistutorials.com/en/" target="_blank">https://www.qgistutorials.com/en/</a></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@KlasKarlsson" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/@KlasKarlsson</a></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@HansvanderKwast" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/@HansvanderKwast</a></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@geodeltalabs" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/@geodeltalabs</a></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@burdGIS" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/@burdGIS</a></div><div></div><div><br></div><div><b>Tools</b></div><div>
<div>- Don't forget to use AI to help you as well in this area. </div><div>- Also check out possible Plugins to help you. </div><div style="margin-left:40px">- Start with QuickMapServices to give you backgrounds e.g google. You will need to go through the settings to load them in<br></div><div style="margin-left:40px">- QGIS Resource Sharing to find other things such as symbology, scripts & etc</div><div style="margin-left:40px">- OSMDownloader to download OSM data</div><div style="margin-left:40px">- Layout Loader to help guide you to select possible map layouts when you need to print out your results<br></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><br></div><div>- Check out the <br></div>
</div><div><b>Data</b></div><div></div><div>- don't download a heap of data</div><div>
- always use the online services (ArcGIS Rest Services) - if these are available - and extract what you need for each project</div><div>- create a geopackage per project and put your datasets in that</div><div>- use meaningful names, I also date some of my files, just in case I have to repeat processes - otherwise you can use versioning<br></div><div>- use the format .gpkg (geopackage) as there are so many functionalities associated with it that are helpful for complex projects, such as saving the layers style etc. <br></div><div>- QGIS can use geodatabases, but I would only use them if I am interchanging between ESRI and QGIS</div><div>- ensure you have the right to use the data in your work</div><div>- if you are running processes, at the end of each process, you can collect the parameters by either copying the log (on the lower right hand part of the Log or click on ctrl+A) or click on the Advanced Tools/Copy as Json and paste these into the Metadata 'History' section. <br></div><div></div><div><br></div><div><b>Folder organisation</b><br></div><div></div><div>- Generally this is the folder structure I have for geospatial activities: <br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_lr70v5fb0" alt="image.png" width="146" height="161"><br></div><div>- Always have a WKG (working) folder in your projects that you can put your tests/trials and any other files that are not your final work - this means you can control your storage space.<br></div><div></div><div>- For the data folder, create category folders and follow the topic categories <a href="https://icsm-au.github.io/metadata-working-group/defs/TopicCategory" target="_blank">here</a>.</div><div><br></div>
</div><div><b>Wildlife GIS</b></div><div>- If you google QGIS for fauna ecology, you can check out the results there, you are better to judge what you need. </div><div>- I have previously undertaken ecology studies with environmental scientists and QGIS is brilliant for it, but so versatile that you really need to be the judge of what you need to do and then google it/find your mentor/or just go for it and find the right tool to help provide your outcome <br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Community</b></div><div>Well you have taken the first step into your QGIS community - congrats. </div><div>Try and connect with your regional community as well so you can meet others face to face. </div><div>There are lots of links for <a href="https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/usergroups.html">QGIS </a>and <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Local_Chapters">OSGeo </a>(which is the overarching community for Open Source Geospatial) and think about attending a FOSS4G event locally or the global one this year in Brazil.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I hope this helps and good luck for your mapping - Welcome to QGIS! <br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Em<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 at 08:54, Priyank Shah via QGIS-User <<a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<div>I'm a student pursuing my masters in wildlife biology, recently I came across the concept of GIS and its applications in Wildlife, so with that willingness to learn something new and upskill myself I want to learn QGIS and its applications with Wildlife.</div><div><br></div><div>That being said I stumbled upon the resources on the QGIS website itself but at the beginning only I faced problems with having to download shape files, like how and where to download them from and what should be the file type for it to function in QGIS.</div><div><br></div><div>And Lastly if anyone is knowledgeable or uses QGIS for Wildlife can someone tell me which aspects of the software do I need to have more emphasis on?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank You.</div></div>
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