[QGIS-ZA-user] Notes from recent meetings

Fri Apr 14 10:35:05 PDT 2017

Hey Gavin,

Great to see your post to the QGIS user group. I've also grown great
interest in the use of QGIS and would like to gain further experience and
knowledge with the software. The forum boasts great potential in terms of
knowledge and experience.

I am currently based in Umhlanga, Durban. Our current system at work
involves the use of ArcGIS and Global Mapper with basic tasks being
performed in QGIS by less proficient users (ie. Image and shapefile
viewing). I would like to convert this to a full QGIS and PostGIS
environment in the near future.

My company is a multinational based company and currently undertake a
variety of tasks such as flood modelling, storm water analysis, development
planning, Lidar analysis, 3D Modelling and agricultural irrigation
planning.

When viewing the development process and applications of GIS within the
current sectors in which we work, I also noted the requirement for being
able to provide the spatial data over a means of mobile and user friendly
platforms. Hence, I undertook the task of learning to build Web Maps with
Geoserver, PostGIS and Openlayers3 as well as Leaflet. Athough time
consuming, I thought it would be best to understand the base before
resorting to the qgis2web plugin which I have since begun using.

I too would be very keen to get more involved with the QGIS users in the
area and possibly into development in the near future if the need or
opportunity did arise.

Will definitely be open to any meetings or discussions which may take place
in the area.

Kind regards,

Cameron Muller

On 14 Apr 2017 10:01, "Gavin Taylor via qgis-za-user" <
qgis-za-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi All
>
> My name is Gavin Taylor, I am currently working for Illovo Sugar at their
> Mozambique estate.
>
> The recent activity has sparked my interest to get more involved with the
> QGIS community.
>
> Currently I am using QGIS for the maintenance and analysis of all our
> spatial data. Due to the restrictive nature of corporate networks, one of
> the major challenges I have is to get the spatial information available to
> users away from their offices  ( specifically on their phones and tablets).
> A neat solution I have been using is the Qgis2Web plugin which outputs a
> webmap which I move to publicly accessible server.
>
> In the past I have worked on a few projects where I have used python
> scripts to automate imagery analysis, aggregating values within field
> boundaries etc. LIDAR analysis for drainage networks and recommendations on
> improvements.
>
> I am slowly converting all the GIS users to QGIS who, after adjusting,
> enjoy the program.
>
> I am interested to find out if there are any active members or users in
> Durban or Pietermaritzburg.
>
> Have a great Easter weekend.
>
> Regards
>
> Gavin Taylor
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> On 12 Apr 2017 21:17, "Paul Young via qgis-za-user" <
> qgis-za-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
> The MariaDB/MySQL database option looks interesting as does the GeoPackage
> tool.
> Am using Essen on Windows and put Wien on Ubuntu 16.04 and had a go at
> PostGIS/PostGreSQL on Ubuntu 16.04.
> Time to get revved up again!!!
>
> On 12 April 2017 at 20:51, Gavin Fleming via qgis-za-user <
> qgis-za-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>> Nice to hear from you Carlo
>>
>> Thanks for the blogs Frank and for your notes Christo.
>>
>> I added some pics to the Gauteng post and corrected the number of
>> attendees - a few had to leave during the day.
>>
>> Hope to see you all in June at http://foss4g-africa.org. Please register
>> and submit presentations and workshop proposals!
>>
>> On 12 Apr 2017, at 20:40, Carlo Fourie via qgis-za-user <
>> qgis-za-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Frank
>>
>> Thanks for the notes and update.
>> I've had some experience with QGIS and mainly use it for data capturing,
>> hydrological modelling and doing some atmospheric corrections. I'm by no
>> means an experienced user, but, like the other people present at the
>> meeting, would like to make QGIS the definitive software to use. Less and
>> less companies can afford to pay the ridiculous licencing fees of
>> proprietary software - in our company there is a drive to migrate to QGIS.
>>
>> In any case, thanks for all the trouble and I hope this initiative
>> snowballs into something beyond our wildest imagination!
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Carlo Fourie
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 9:07 AM, Frank Sokolic via qgis-za-user <
>> qgis-za-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi QGIS ZA users,
>>>
>>> For those of you that weren't there, notes from the recent meetings held
>>> in Cape Town and Pretoria are now on our website at
>>> https://qgis.org.za/en/blog/
>>>
>>> Regards, Frank.
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