University of Edinburgh's first QGIS Training Course

The University of

Edinburgh’s First QGIS

Training Course

16th November 2015

Tom Armitage

tom.armitage@ed.ac.uk

@MapNav_Tom

EDINA?

EDINA?

EDINA?

Why?

Why?

Why?

Why?

Digital HumanitiesHistory, Literature, Social Science,

Anthropology

Why?

Digital HumanitiesHistory, Literature, Social Science,

Anthropology

Why Now?

Who For?

• Social scientists

• Historians

• Archaeologists

• Anthropologists

• Epidemiologists

• Agriculturalists

• Horticulturalists

• Aboriculturalists

• Psycologists

• Literature Studies

• Architects

• Mathematicians

• Biologists

What do we teach?

Getting the

software

Adding Data to it

Making the data

look like a Map

Basic Geo Processing

Printing a map out

What don’t we teach?

Spatial Analysis

Too many different bases to cover

Databases Too many different databases to cover

Any Questions

Point them to experts (Google +

group)

Point them to GIS stack

exchange

What did we learn?

Yea!

How many Icons?

Vs

What did we learn?

Yea!

Where?!??

What did we learn?

ArcGIS is more often easier to use…

But“Simplicity can breed bad data management

practices and a poor understanding of what

you are doing.”

What did we learn?

QGIS is Awesome!

No Buts“QGIS could do everything that we taught in the ArcGIS

practical, the software is free and open source, you can take it

anywhere in the world without restrictions …and the training

booklet is thinner too!”