[Portugal] [Fwd: [Qgis-community-team] QGIS case study from Tanzania]

[Giovanni Manghi]

Hello QGIS community team -

We just wanted to let you know about a successful two-day GIS training
session held in Tanzania last week, using Quantum GIS.

The event was organised by the Udzungwa Elephant Project, based next to
Tanzania's Udzungwa Mountains National Park, a range of evergreen
forested mountains reaching over 2,500 metres, with participants from
Tanzanian National Parks and the Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre. 

You can find details and pictures here:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Udzungwa-Elephant-Project/157164174392263

http://udzungwa.wildlifedirect.org/2012/02/10/qgis-training-for-park-staff/

Trainees used their own laptops and were provided with the installer for
QGIS 1.7.3 along with key data layers covering the National Park:
protected area boundaries, scanned topographic maps, a DEM, roads,
ranger posts, and habitat types. By the end of the two days, everyone
was able to add GPS download data, create and edit new layers, save map
projects, design print composers, and save graphics files for inclusion
in reports and presentations - this last feature is specially useful in
using GIS to help in normal workflows. Even during the course, National
Park staff were using the GIS to view the GPS locations of new-reported
elephant carcass locations - the result of poaching - and to start
planning responses.

Everyone's reaction to the software was extremely
favourable in terms of funcionality and usability and we all appreciated
being beneficiaries of a fantastic amount of work by the QGIS
development
team.

Best wishes,
Nick McWilliam and Trevor Jones.

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