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Teaching GIS to Non-GeographersTom ArmitageEDINA, Geoservices Support@EDINA_Digimap @MapNav_Tom

1In November I spoke about how EDINA were initiating QGIS training in addition to the ArcGIS training sessions we were already giving.

I mentioned that the Digital Humanities in particular were interested in QGIS, and the following demonstration is basically a training course we put together for an English literature lecturer

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HistoriansGenealogistsArchitectsCivil EngineersHuman Resources

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Geoservices SupportSocial scientistsArchaeologistsBiologistsEpidemiologistsAnthropologistsAgriculturalistsHorticulturalistsArboriculturalistsPsychologistsCriminologistsPhysicistsClassicistsLinguistsMathematiciansInformaticiansLand AgentsQuantity SurveyorsDoctorsLawyersVetsHairdressers

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Digimap Users by Subject@EDINA_Digimap @MapNav_Tom

What are they doing?Location MapsThematic MapsSite PlansWeb Maps@EDINA_Digimap @MapNav_Tom

Teaching GIS

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Best Practice

CartographyCopyrightNormalisation@EDINA_Digimap @MapNav_Tom

Best Practice: Cartography

CategoriesColour Vision DeficiencyPhotocopying

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Best Practice: CopyrightCrown Copyright@EDINA_Digimap @MapNav_Tom

Best Practice: Normalisation

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Precautions

CurrencyProjection ConversionGeneralisation and scale@EDINA_Digimap @MapNav_Tom

Precautions: Currency

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Precautions: Projection

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Precautions: Conversion

OSTN02Petroleum

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Precautions: Generalisation & Scale

Check your:ScaleSourcefor compatibility

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Specialist Training: Business Studies

Demographic DataTravel TimesBasemapsSimple Tools@EDINA_Digimap @MapNav_Tom

Specialist Training: Geology

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Unlockhttp://edina.ac.uk/unlock/texts/CLAVINhttps://clavin.bericotechnologies.com/Edinburgh LTGhttps://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/software/geoparser/Specialist Training: GeoParsing@EDINA_Digimap @MapNav_Tom

Specialist Training: Informatics

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Specialist Training: English Literature

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Specialist Training: Social Science

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Non-Geographers do some interesting stuffWe try not to overload themAre we teaching them enough?Should we just make the maps for them?

Conclusions

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Conclusions

Useful Tool to help themselves?OrPowerful Tool in the wrong hands?@EDINA_Digimap @MapNav_Tom