This is a great suggestion. I've used GRASS old spearfish dataset while trying to learn GRASS in the past. Additional points for discussion: - application domain - QGIS is a general purpose tool. A biologist, a geologist, a local government or a small community would have very different data requirements. A generic dataset cannot cater to all. Probably good to create multiple datasets and allow each group to curate each dataset. - geographic location - during my beginner gis courses, I find that participants appreciate the concepts if they work on a "local" dataset. A good resource is openstreetmap.
For cartography related plugins and exercises, I suggest you use the Natural Earth dataset. 2010/10/4 Pierre Chevalier Géologue <pierrechevalierg...@free.fr>: > I would be in favour of compiling a "state-of-the-art" complete dataset, > so that users can play immediately with it, and get a good feeling about > softwares. Not only plug-ins, but the whole thing. This could be a sort > of standard, a base on which any GIS newbie could rely on to make his > own dataset: just erase all example data, and fill with your own, and > you're up and running. > > Such a dataset has, of course, to be free (freedom), it may have data > such as: > - an srtm dem, > - a topo map, > - gpx data, > - satellite imagery > - a scanned geological map (sorry, "je prêche pour ma paroisse" > => if someone > knows the English > > translation, go on and translate ;) > ), > - a scanned pedological map, > - a set of pictures taken from the ground, geotagged, > - buildings as vectors, > - roads as vectors, > - "field occupation" (occupation du sol, in French: not sure about > translation) as vectors, > - a postgis database, > - an sqlite database, > - a mysql (forgot about postgis equivalent, sorry) database, > - a whole grass dataset, > - etc, etc. (unlimited) -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user