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Introduction to QGIS, Digital Mapping Solutions (Melbourne, Australia)
Posted June 14th, 2012 by Eliana
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07/19/2012
07/20/2012
Etc/GMT-7
This practical course is designed to introduce spatial professionals to the Quantum GIS desktop application and provide them with skills to add value to their existing GIS toolkit.
Attendees will learn techniques that will allow them to enhance their everyday desktop mapping capabilities and implement advanced features such as SQL2008 compatibility.
As a hands-on course, the attendees can actively participate and experience real-world examples. It is a great opportunity to explore the possibilities that QGIS offers.
Course Outline
User interface and basic tools
QGIS projects and preferences
Coordinate Reference Systems and On-The-Fly (OTF) projection
Map navigation and QGIS tools
Vector map objects: Adding, deleting & modifying
Attribute data: Field editing & modification
Layer manipulation
Digitizing
Styles and labelling
Object manipulation: Combine, split & buffer
Registering raster imagery
Creating layouts for printing
Utilising WMS and WFS Web Services
Plugins
Database connectivity
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