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Category: classes-seminars-workshops

Practical QGIS – Live Online Class May 26 through 28th, 2020

Posted on May 6, 2020May 6, 2020 by karstenvennemann

Learn QGIS

On May 26 through 28th Terra GIS is offering a 3 day online class on QGIS Desktop GIS ( taught live out of, Seattle, Washington). The class will focus on practical exercises in a workshop style setting. The class will enable ArcGIS users to easily transition to using QGIS and its comprehensive tool kit (or to use it in addition to their existing GIS software). Participants can choose to attend the full three days of the class or optionally attend only one or two of the days. Details about the class can to be found here.

CCRP “Open Source GIS and Tools” Workshop in Nairobi

Posted on April 6, 2017 by karstenvennemann

The latest CCRP “Open Source GIS and Tools” Workshop took place from March 20-24th at the African Institute for Capacity Development (AICAD) in Juja town, about 33 km NE of Nairobi. The group of 19 participants included the Kenya GIS team, representatives of the CCRP GIS support teams from Uganda and Ethiopia, and University partners from 4 Kenyan Universities and their attached students. The CCRP GIS support team consisting of Karsten Vennemann and Matt Stevenson had prepared a week long schedule covering a variety of topics with the goal of capacity building within the East African regional GIS support teams. The workshop included lectures and hands on exercises enabling the participants to publish their own interactive web maps, covered QGIS Cartography about ‘how to make better maps’, introduced tools that enable a wealth of spatial functionality using the desktop program QGIS, and finally introduced templates for creating simple maps and graphs by using the statistical software R. One day of the workshop week was dedicated to group work on creating a guide for CCRP researchers on “how to use GIS, spatial tools and analysis” in support of their scientific work and hypothesis. The resulting guide will be refined in collaboration with the research methods team and will be shared with researchers throughout CCRP. The goal of this guide along with the increased GIS support capacity in the region is to enable CCRP researchers to include spatial knowledge and analysis in their research approaches in order to create better results efficiently.

Practical QGIS – Class in Seattle January 23rd/24th, 2017

Posted on November 16, 2016 by karstenvennemann

In June Terra GIS is offering a 2 day class on QGIS Desktop GIS at the Impact HUB, Seattle, Washington. The class will focus on practical exercises in a workshop style setting. The class will enable ArcGIS users to easily transition to using QGIS and its comprehensive tool kit (or to use it in addition to their existing GIS software). Participants can choose to attend the full two day class or optionally attend only one of the two days. Details about the class can to be found here. On Wednesday January 25rd, 2017 an additional one day advanced QGIS class will be offered (more information on the advanced class will become available in the next few weeks).

Pre-conference workshop at NWGIS 2016 Conference

Posted on October 3, 2016 by karstenvennemann

Terra GIS is offering a 2 day hands-on pre-conference workshop “Interoperable Web GIS Solutions with Free & Open Source Geospatial Software” at the NWGIS 2016 Conference – Bridging the Gap. The conference this year will be held at the Salem Convention Center, Salem, Oregon. The pre-conference workshop will be held on Monday October 17th and Tuesday October 18th, 2016, the main conference program will continue until Friday of the same week. Details about the workshop are here and the official conference workshop and registration page is here.

Practical QGIS – Class in Seattle June 20th/21st, 2016

Posted on April 8, 2016May 1, 2020 by karstenvennemann

In June Terra GIS is offering a 2 day class on QGIS Desktop GIS at the Impact HUB, Seattle, Washington. The class will focus on practical exercises in a workshop style setting. The class will enable ArcGIS users to easily transition to using QGIS and its comprehensive tool kit (or to use it in addition to their existing GIS software). Participants can choose to attend the full two day class or optionally attend only one of the two days. Details about the class can to be found here. On Wednesday June 23rd, 2016 an additional one day advanced QGIS class will be offered (more information on the advanced class will become available in the next few weeks).

Pre-conference workshop at URISA GIS-Pro & NWGIS 2015 Conference

Posted on September 21, 2015May 1, 2020 by karstenvennemann

Terra GIS is offering a 2 day hands-on pre-conference workshop at the URISA GIS-Pro & NWGIS 2015 Conference – Geography at the Nexus of Collaboration. The conference this year will be held at the Davenport Grand Hotel, 333 W Spokane Falls Blvd, Spokane, Washington. The pre-conference workshop will be held on Sunday October 18th and Monday October 19th, 2015, the main conference program will continue until Thursday of the same week. Details about the workshop are here and the official conference workshop page is here.

Trans-SEC Web GIS workshop in Morogoro, Tanzania

Posted on March 4, 2014 by karstenvennemann

The Web GIS workshop was organized in a cooperation between Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Tanzania and the University of Hohenheim, Germany. Last week my friend and fellow Soil Scientist Dr. Ludger Herrmann and me met at SUA in Morogoro, Tanzania to jointly lead this 3 day workshop for the Trans-SEC project working on food security in eastern Africa. Ludger had been my boss during my first job from 1998-2000 at the University of Hohenheim, Department of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, but we had not worked together professionally since then.
The long name of Trans-SEC is Innovating Strategies to safeguard Food Security using Technology and Knowledge Transfer. Over the next 3 years I will work together with Ludger and our partners at SUA, a team of scientists lead by professor Siza Tumbo. My role will be to teach and support the team implementing a Web GIS platform (based on Open Source GIS software) for use in the Trans-Sec project and to publish an Atlas of Food security of Tanzania.

During this first workshop participants where introduced to MapServer, OpenLayers and PostGIS and we build some first temporary web maps together on a temporary web server. On the second last day of the workshop the server that was shipped from Hohenheim arrived in Morogoro by bus and was then installed on the last day of our stay at the computing center at SUA with help from the IT department. Ludger and I will return for two more web mapping workshops over the next two years to support the project and its mapping components.