[OSGeo Africa] QGIS course in Western Cape moved to 23 May

Gavin gavinjfleming at gmail.com
Fri Mar 18 17:49:28 EDT 2011


Dear all

AfriSpatial through the FOSS GIS Academy is offering a Quantum GIS
Course from 23-25 May 2011.
Price: R3000 (no VAT)

Note: It is no longer on 4 April, because of school holidays.

Venue: Western Cape: Cape Town or Winelands area. We will decide on a
venue based on attendee locations.

Why not tag onto AfricaGeo, which takes the week after this course?

There is an optional extension covering an introduction to PostGIS on
26-27 May, for those of you interested in a powerful spatial data
analysis and management platform.

Price for QGIS + PostGIS: R5000 (no VAT)

Cost includes course materials, a DVD with software and data and a
certificate of attendance.

Cost excludes catering and computers.

NB: Bring your own laptop, you'll do the course on your own computer.
You'll leave with QGIS and other FOSS GIS software set up and working on
your computer. 
 
We need at least 8 people confirmed by 6 May. To confirm please pay or
provide an order before 6 May.

Register here or and we will send you a (pro-forma) invoice.

Course overview

This is an introductory-level course. So if you are new to GIS, new to
FOSS GIS or are experienced in other GIS software and want to find out
how to do your work in Quantum GIS, this course is for you. 

Quantum GIS (QGIS) is the ideal professional desktop GIS for any
application.

Our aim is to make you comfortable with FOSS GIS tools for day to day
GIS work. Quantum GIS provides a compelling alternative to proprietary
GIS in many situations. We will start by installing QGIS, then take you
through the workflow of loading data from disparate sources, creating
data from scratch, data analysis and producing a professional map
suitable for delivery to a decision maker. We will also take a look at
some of the many plugins available for QGIS and touch on the use of
GRASS within QGIS. Lastly we will look at how QGIS can be integrated
into a multi-user enterprise environment by using it as a web services
and geospatial database client.

PostGIS is a spatial database that is more than just a spatial data
store. Users, web map servers and other applications can all run off the
same database. And beware! Doing spatial analysis in PostGIS can become
addictive.

The PostGIS 'extra' is a little more advanced than QGIS but is beginner
to intermediate as far as PostGIS goes. We will cover installing
PostgreSQL and PostGIS, loading data, performing spatial queries, doing
spatial analysis with SQL and using PostGIS with QGIS. 

Gautengers take note: We are planning a similar course in Gauteng in
June

-- 
regards

Gavin

Gavin Fleming
http://afrispatial.co.za
t: 0218620670
c: 0845965680
f: 0866164820 














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