I know this wouldn't be for new people to GIS but I plan on writing something on my blog for this kind of thing. For people that are interested in QGIS but currently using MapInfo, like I did. Kind of like: This in MapInfo = This in QGIS<br>
<br><div>- Nathan</div><div>- <a href="http://woostuff.wordpress.com/">http://woostuff.wordpress.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Cameron Shorter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Below, Frank has done a great job asking the exact sort of question that new GIS users ask, and which we as an OSGeo community should address to attract new users.<br>
<br>
What has been done so far toward building a FAQ on "How to you XXX with Open Source GIS?"?<br>
<br>
Frank wrote:<br>
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Not only am I new to the forum, but<br>
I'm new to GIS work in general.<br>
<br>
I downloaded the Live CD and installed it on a virtual machine and it's<br>
working great. I'm trying to build a suite of GIS tools I can for the various<br>
tasks I have to do at work and it's great having so many products right<br>
in front of me. It's highly quality work and I appreciate all the hard<br>
work to pull it together.<br>
<br>
What would be really helpful to me (and possibly other new-to-GIS folks<br>
like myself) is a FAQ-type list of questions with app answers. For example:<br>
<br>
<br>
Do you want to edit shapefiles? Try xxx, yyy, zzz.<br>
Do you want to style shapefiles? Try ...<br>
Do you want to work exclusively with raster files?<br>
Do you need to work simultaneously with raster and vector files?<br>
Do you want to convert one file into one another format?<br>
Do you want to convert raster to vector?<br>
Vector to raster?<br>
Vector to another vector?<br>
<br>
etc.<br>
<br>
If there were a couple dozen questions with short answers it would really<br>
supplement the disc quite well.<br>
<br>
For instance, I'm trying to figure out how to convert a raster (binary<br>
GRID) file into a shapefile. I dink around in the various programs on the<br>
CD, but I don't know if I just can't find the "convert raster to vector"<br>
option in a particular app or if it isn't there at all. A short little<br>
Q&A text file would be nice to help at least focus my initial search<br>
a little bit better. At the least I (hopefully) would be pointed to the<br>
best choices for my purpose.<br>
<br>
<br>
Hope this makes sense!<br>
<br>
Frank<br>
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