1.1. Cuvânt înainte¶

1.1.1. Fundal¶

In 2008 we launched the Gentle Introduction to GIS, a completely free, open content resource for people who want to learn about GIS without being overloaded with jargon and new terminology. It was sponsored by the South African government and has been a phenomenal success, with people all over the world writing to us to tell us how they are using the materials to run University Training Courses, teach themselves GIS and so on. The Gentle Introduction is not a software tutorial, but rather aims to be a generic text (although we used QGIS in all examples) for someone learning about GIS. There is also the QGIS manual which provides a detailed functional overview of the QGIS application. However, it is not structured as a tutorial, but rather as a reference guide. At Linfiniti Consulting CC. we frequently run training courses and have realised that a third resource is needed - one that leads the reader sequentially through learning the key aspects of QGIS in a trainer-trainee format - which prompted us to produce this work.

This training manual is intended to provide all the materials needed to run a 5 day course on QGIS, PostgreSQL and PostGIS. The course is structured with content to suit novice, intermediate and advanced users alike and has many exercises complete with annotated answers throughout the text.

1.1.2. Licență¶

The Free Quantum GIS Training Manual by Linfiniti Consulting CC. is based on an earlier version from Linfiniti and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at below.

We have published this QGIS training manual under a liberal license that allows you to freely copy, modify and redistribute this work. A complete copy of the license is available at the end of this document. In simple terms, the usage guidelines are as follows:

• You may not represent this work as your own work, or remove any authorship text or credits from this work.
• You may not redistribute this work under more restrictive permissions than those under which it was provided to you.
• If you add a substantive portion to the work and contribute it back to the project (at least one complete module) you may add your name to the end of the authors list for this document (which will appear on the front page)
• If you contribute minor changes and corrections you may add yourself to the contributors list below.
• If you translate this document in its entirety, you may add your name to the authors list in the form “Translated by Joe Bloggs”.
• If you sponsor a module or lesson, you may request the author to include an acknowledgement in the beginning of each lesson contributed, e.g.:

• If you are unsure about what you may do under this license, please contact us at office@linfiniti.com and we will advise you if what you intend doing is acceptable.
• If you publish this work under a self publishing site such as http://lulu.com we request that you donate the profits to the QGIS project.
• You may not commercialise this work, except with the expressed permission of the authors. To be clear, by commercialisation we mean that you may not sell for profit, create commercial derivative works (e.g. selling content for use as articles in a magazine). The exception to this is if all the profits are given to the QGIS project. You may (and we encourage you to do so) use this work as a text book when conducting training courses, even if the course itself is commercial in nature. In other words, you are welcome to make money by running a training course that uses this work as a text book, but you may not profit off the sales of the book itself - all such profits should be contributed back to QGIS.

1.1.3. Capitole Sponsorizate¶

This work is by no means a complete treatise on all the things you can do with QGIS and we encourage others to add new materials to fill any gaps. Linfiniti Consulting CC. can also create additional materials for you as a commercial service, with the understanding that all such works produced should become part of the core content and be published under the same license.

1.1.4. Autori¶

• Rüdiger Thiede (rudi@linfiniti.com) - Rudi a scris materialele de instruire QGIS și părți din materialele PostGIS.

• Tim Sutton (tim@linfiniti.com) - Tim a supravegheat și îndrumat proiectul, fiind co-autorul părților de PostgreSQL și PostGIS. Tim este, de asemenea, autorul temei sfinx, personalizate, folosită pentru acest manual.

• Horst Düster (horst.duester@kappasys.ch ) - Horst este co-autor al părților de PostgreSQL și PostGIS

• Marcelle Sutton (marcelle@linfiniti.com) - Marcelle s-a ocupat de lectura și consilierea editorială, pe durata creării acestei lucrări.

1.1.5. Contribuții Individuale¶

Introduceţi numele dvs. aici!

1.1.6. Sponsori¶

• Universitatea de Tehnologie din Cape Peninsula

1.1.7. Date¶

Datele eșantion care însoțesc această resursă sunt disponibile gratuit, și provin din următoarele surse:

• Seturile de date ale Străzilor și Locațiilor de la OpenStreetMap (http://www.openstreetmap.org/)

• Limitele de proprietate (urbane și rurale), corpurile de apă de la NGI (http://www.ngi.gov.za/)

• SRTM DEM de la CGIAR-CGI (http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/)

1.1.8. Ultima versiune¶

Puteți obține întotdeauna cea mai recentă versiune a acestui document, parcurgând versiunea online, care este integrată în site-ul Documentației QGIS (http://docs.qgis.org).

Tim Sutton, Mai 2012