Hello QGIS community team - We just wanted to let you know about a successful two-day GIS training session held in Tanzania last week, using Quantum GIS.
The event was organised by the Udzungwa Elephant Project, based next to Tanzania's Udzungwa Mountains National Park, a range of evergreen forested mountains reaching over 2,500 metres, with participants from Tanzanian National Parks and the Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre. You can find details and pictures here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Udzungwa-Elephant-Project/157164174392263 http://udzungwa.wildlifedirect.org/2012/02/10/qgis-training-for-park-staff/ Trainees used their own laptops and were provided with the installer for QGIS 1.7.3 along with key data layers covering the National Park: protected area boundaries, scanned topographic maps, a DEM, roads, ranger posts, and habitat types. By the end of the two days, everyone was able to add GPS download data, create and edit new layers, save map projects, design print composers, and save graphics files for inclusion in reports and presentations - this last feature is specially useful in using GIS to help in normal workflows. Even during the course, National Park staff were using the GIS to view the GPS locations of new-reported elephant carcass locations - the result of poaching - and to start planning responses. Everyone's reaction to the software was extremely favourable in terms of funcionality and usability and we all appreciated being beneficiaries of a fantastic amount of work by the QGIS development team. Best wishes, Nick McWilliam and Trevor Jones. _______________________________________________ Qgis-community-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-community-team
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