[Qgis-community-team] QGIS Case Study: The Historical Gazetteer of the Crimea (HGC) Project

[Mark Polczynski]

Thanks for the feedback, that really helps.  I will cut down the full
description of the project and send it to you in a few days.

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 5:59 AM, Otto Dassau <dassau at gbd-consult.de> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> as Tim already wrote
> https://www.qgis.org/en/site/about/case_studies/index.html provides some
> information about "what you need to provide" for a case study:
>
> Structure
> =========
>
> The stories should follow a simple structure and we suggest to write about
> 800 words including one or two screenshots.
>
> Title
> =====
>
> Short Introduction with background of the company / institute / authority /
> university (length about 200 words). Story about your project/application
> and what QGIS is used for (length about 400 words plus screenshots)
> Conclusion showing positive experiences/benefits using QGIS (length about
> 200 words)
>
> And of course there are many sample case studies you can use to get
> inspiration.
>
> When it's done, just send me the document and pictures and I can add them
> to
> the qgis.org.
>
> Best whishes
> Otto
>
> Am Wed, 6 Dec 2017 12:34:43 +0200
> schrieb Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com>:
>
> > Hi Mark
> >
> > It will be really great to include your case study on our web site.
> > Perhaps you could have a look at
> > https://www.qgis.org/en/site/about/case_studies/index.html and get some
> > inspiration in terms of providing a little more detail and some images
> etc.
> >
> > Otto are you still able to help with walking Mark through the process of
> > getting his case study included?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > > On 05 Dec 2017, at 21:50, Mark Polczynski <mhp.techforge at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > Greetings QGIS Community Team.  A  QGIS pop-up tip said to send QGIS
> > > case studies to this e-mail.  The following is my case study...
> > >
> > > The Historical Gazetteer of the Crimea (HGC) project
> > > (http://epublications.marquette.edu/ottoman_crimea/
> > > <http://epublications.marquette.edu/ottoman_crimea/>) produced a
> > > gazetteer database that includes populated places, districts, and
> > > provinces of Crimea in existence at the end of the Crimean Khanate. The
> > > primary source of data was Henryk Jankowski’s Historical-Etymological
> > > Dictionary of Pre-Russian Habitation Names of the Crimea.  Of the 137
> > > populated places shown on Jankowski’s map, 99 have been associated with
> > > existing places.  These are the populated place entries in the HGC.
> The
> > > gazetteer also includes locations for six provinces and 43 districts.
> > > The gazetteer was generated as a QGIS project with geolocation of
> places
> > > being done by associating Jankowski’s places with currently-existing
> > > places contained in the GeoNames database (http://www.geonames.org
> > > <http://www.geonames.org/>).
> > >
> > > --
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> > > Mark Polczynski
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Mark Polczynski
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