[Qgis-community-team] Q-GIS case study from Tanzania

[Nick McWilliam]

Hello all, and thank you for the various positive replies to my post.
 
Otto: great that you can create a case study. I will send you a text directly.

Giovanni: that's good news about the forthcoming shapefile field handling. 

Also Giovanni: about the GPS connection, I struggled for a while to find all the correct GPSBabel commands to create a GPS new device, in this case a Garmin USB device. Indeed, for a relatively non-technical GIS user like me, it took a long time to realize that GPSBabel documentation was what I needed to look for. Something I found by trial and error was that a 'space' character in any file path would stop the GPS tool working. So, perhaps some pre-configured devices would be useful, and perhaps some more guidance in the "GPS Device Editor" window? Finally, is it possible to connect to a Garmin GPSMAP62? Oddly, this unit doesn’t seem to support Garmin comms protocol.

Cheers all -
Nick.

-----Original Message-----
From: qgis-community-team-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-community-team-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Otto Dassau
Sent: 13 February 2012 13:05
To: qgis-community-team at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-community-team] Q-GIS case study from Tanzania

Hi,

I can add the case study. Could someone, who was involved select 2 figures
and write a text, with structure and length similar to what you find in the
other already existing case studies, please?

Then send it directly to me as a zip file and I will add it this week.

Regards
Otto

Am Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:08:56 +0000
schrieb Giovanni Manghi <giovanni.manghi at gmail.com>:

> Hi!
> 
> On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 07:55 +0000, Nick McWilliam wrote:
> > Hello Q-GIS 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. Would you like to
> > use this as a case study?
> > (http://qgis.org/en/community/qgis-case-studies.html)
> 
> 
> this is really a nice case study! can someone add it to the QGIS page?
> 
> I would also make another try (contacting Luiz Motta, that is a active
> member of the qgis community) to write a case study about this project
> in the Amazon forest
> 
> http://portal.mda.gov.br/terralegal/pages/ferramentas
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > At a technical level, the one area of difficulty we encountered was with
> > direct GPS connection, so EasyGPS and MapSource were used as
> > intermediaries.
> 
> 
> what was the problem?
> 
> 
> > The Table Manager extension came to the rescue for altering and deleting
> > attribute fields - might this become part of the standard installation?
> 
> 
> When qgis will be compiled against gdal 1.9 (should happen soon) then it
> will be able to delete/rename shapefiles fields without the need of any
> 3rd party tool.
> 
> 
> cheers
> 
> -- Giovanni --
> 
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