[Qgis-user] Getting landuse information for several circular polygons

[Simon Cropper]

Manuel,

I am not aware of any specific tutorials for doing this work in QGIS.

No offense but these tasks are relatively basic. Your comment "I found 
this task kind of difficult to do in QGIS" is suggestive that you have 
difficulty in either basic GIS concepts or extrapolating your existing 
knowledge from a commercial package to QGIS.

*Assuming you stick with QGIS*

Micha Silver has provided a tutorial called "GIS basics with Quantum 
GIS" http://www.osgeo.org/node/1058 that may help you master the basics.

The QGIS website has a great section called "How do I do that in QGIS?" 
that covers alot of material 
http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/wiki/How_do_I_do_that_in_QGIS#How-do-I-do-that-in-QGIS. 
Note the large number of videos on youtube -- sometimes seeing it done 
can help.

*Assuming you are considering an alternative*

The OSGeo Educational Content Inventory also has a wide variety of other 
educational material available that might also help fill in the gaps. 
http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content

Finally, QGIS is not the only fosGIS out there. Check out what is on 
offer on the LiveDVD (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc).

Personally, I found using gvSIG relatively easy when moving from 
ArcView. Unfortunately the bulk of the tutorials are in Spanish; unlike 
QGIS which are predominantly in English. See my website for details and 
a list of ecological tutorials I have prepared to date.

*Final Comment*

All this material is predicated by the premise that you actually know 
what things are called. Reprojection and transformation is a good 
example. Projection, SRS and CRS another. When stuck, posing a problem 
on the forums can help as others can help you with terminology and 
suggest methods to solve you problems.

I hope this helps.

On 17/07/12 11:50, Manuel Spínola wrote:
> What I am trying to do is a very common task in landscape ecology.  The
> buffer could be considered a landscape for some species and some metrics
> could be obtained for these "landscapes", however, I found this task
> kind of difficult to do in QGIS.  Any input on this?  Is there any
> oriented landscape ecology tutorial for QGIS.


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