Practical requirements and setup

Prerequisite skills:

You are expected to have basic IT skills and to be familiar with MS Office applications, particularly Excel, or another spreadsheet application.

Requirements:

In order to successfully complete this course you should ensure the following:

1. You must have sole use of a computer and internet connection, for the duration of the training programme.

2. QGIS desktop software downloaded and installed

This should be organised in advance of the training, as the application installer is a large file (approx. 1GB); once installed you should ensure it is functioning correctly. To download and install QGIS follow the guidance document below:

3. GRID3 training data, downloaded and saved locally:

• Download all data required for this programme as a single ZIP file from here: GRID3 training data downloads
• When the zip file has downloaded, extract the files and save the folder G3_GIS_Training directly to your 'C:/' drive; the file path should therefore read C:\G3_GIS_Training
• The file path to your data should therefore read C:\G3_GIS_Training