My choice to join the QGIS community was a winner. I have received lots
of advice and offers for help from a bunch of you. I have kind of lost
track of who I have responded to, so I thought I would report here.
As I have said, I joined this community to find sources of usable data
for some maps I have been struggling to make. Thing were complicated by
my having to relearn ArcGIS products after being away from that for
about 12 years.
I was guided to a good data source, Geogratis, that has 1:50K data for
free. But, working my way through the multu-level of cascading
acronyms, most of which I had not the slightest clue what they meant.
There is still much learning at that level.
I have 'confessed' elsewhere, that I plugged that data into ArcMap, as I
could not face another learning experience with QGIS. ArcMap let me
know the data was good, but I could not get it to do what I needed it to
do.
Last night I opened QGIS and loaded the data, along with some data that
the local Regional District supplies. I 'instantly' had a great map for
digital use, but could not figure out how to get it into a form I could
send to the plotter. This morning a short search cleared that up and
soon had Print Composer dancing away. Another search and I had
Scale-based Visibility working for me. And soon after, I sent the PDF
to a firm in Richmond, BC, called ITMB, for plotting. They will do this
for CA$15, which is think is about $0.25 in US dollars? ;-)
I know I have much more learning ahead of me, but luckily, I love
learning, so that is all good.
Thanks again to everyone who has helped me. I hope to pass on the favour.
Stephen
In Roberts Creek, BC
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