[Qgis-user] Assistance with QGIS tutorial.

[Sid M. Miller]

Greetings:

I need help to get  started learning /QuantumGIS/ using *Quatntum GIS 
Training Manual*, Release 1.0 dated April 05, 2014.I am presently 
hampered by a long term, if not permanent period of ineptitude.

I have used a good deal of time initially to learn some rudiments, as I 
had no prior GIS experience, and then to search, download, install and 
print matching materials consisting of a *Quantum GIS* program, version 
1.8 (Lisboa) to match *Quantum GIS Training Manual*, Release 1.0 dated 
April 05, 2014, which at the time (April 2014) appeared to be the latest 
Tutorial, although Lisboa was not the latest *QGIS* program version. I 
also downloaded and printed *A Gentle Introduction to GIS* (no date or 
version number), and *QGIS User Guide, *Release 1.8.0, dated May 14, 
2011 to provide introductory and source material as I progressed.

In late April, 2014, following the Tutorial, page 7, I downloaded and 
unzipped /Training_manual_exercise_data.zip/ from the website, 
http://qgis.org/downloads/data/.I've tried unsuccessfully, following 
page 8 to add the first vector layer with "/exercise_data/streets.shp"/, 
but browse as hard as I could was not able to locate this shape file.I 
downloaded and unzipped the data zip file three times with the same result.

I satisfied myself that Lisboa was working by borrowing a shape file 
from a very short MIT tutorial (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 
to produce a Map of Massachusetts with its taxing districts, and also by 
using "//roads.shp/" to produce a map of a South Africa town.My notes of 
4/25/14 neglect to record how I found the South Africa shape file, but I 
believe it was among the *QGIS* materials.

I need someone to put me on the right "street", so I can pick up the 
tutorial at page 7 or 8 with the proper shape file and continue through 
to the end.


Please email me if you post a response advising that an answer is 
waiting for me.


Yours truly,

Sid Miller

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