Update Training Manual Cadastrals

[grvhi]

We need to update the training manual cadastrals so that they use OSM data sources and can be easily replaced with localised data sets

[grvhi]

I have written a “Preparing Data” chapter about how to get sample data out of OSM using the built-in QGIS function. It’s a good start, but it doesn’t go far enough in terms of the more complex vector data required in the later chapters. We (@timlinux and I) also spoke about creating a download page where end-users (or tutors) can download a customised package of the docs - in theory it shouldn’t be too hard to incorporate a script to fetch their geographic data from OSM as part of that process.

In the earlier chapters, I stopped referring to “Swellendam”, but soon found it became rather a mouthful to use “the major urban area” (or similar) - if we do go the auto-download route, then (again, in theory) we should be able to script a process to replace all references to “Swellendam” with the name of the town featured in their customised data set.

In fact, it would be simpler to use a markdown tag e.g. |urbanName| throughout the docs and then simply update the value in the conf file. That way, the docs will be uniquely specific rather than broadly generic.

[timlinux]

Hi

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 10:00 AM, George Irwin notifications@github.comwrote:

I have written a “Preparing Data” chapter about how to get sample data out of OSM using the built-in QGIS function. It’s a good start, but it doesn’t go far enough in terms of the more complex vector data required in the later chapters. We (@timlinux https://github.com/timlinux and I) also spoke about creating a download page where end-users (or tutors) can download a customised package of the docs - in theory it shouldn’t be too hard to incorporate a script to fetch their geographic data from OSM as part of that process.

In the earlier chapters, I stopped referring to “Swellendam”, but soon found it became rather a mouthful to use “the major urban area” (or similar) - if we do go the auto-download route, then (again, in theory) we should be able to script a process to replace all references to “Swellendam” with the name of the town featured in their customised data set.

In fact, it would be simpler to use a markdown tag e.g. |urbanName|throughout the docs and then simply update the value in the conf file. That way, the docs will be uniquely specific rather than broadly generic.

Yes tokenising this kind of stuff would be a smart way to do it.

Regards

Tim

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