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I will build a 16 hour (2 day) course on QGIS for ArcGIS users. The target users that breathe and sleep ArcGIS. As we're trying to reduce our costs, we're thinking of switching some people to QGIS and having a floater ArcGIS license rather than have everyone with it. I've used QGIS extensively and very familiar with it (versions 0.7 to 1.8)
Are there any course materials that are specific to "QGIS to ArcGIS" or that target advanced operations in QGIS?
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I would suggest that the best place to learn anything about ArcGIS Desktop, is in the Tutorials. These are step by step tutorials, with data, and come free with the Desktop Setup. Till 9.3.1, they were present as PDF's in the Documentation folder in C:\Program Files\ArcGIS folder.
From ArcGIS 10 onwards, they are available online here.
Suggestions by other users are:
Introducing Geographic Information Systems with ArcGIS: A Workbook Approach to Learning GIS
A unique approach to learning and teaching GIS, updated for ArcGIS 9.3 Introducing Geographic Information Systems with ArcGIS, Second Edition serves as both an easy-to-understand introduction to GIS and a hands-on manual for the ArcGIS 9.3 software. This combination theory-workbook approach is designed to quickly bring the reader from GIS neophyte to well-informed GIS user from both a general knowledge and practical viewpoint.
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Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
The principle is simple if you have R installed and is usable in command line.
You can create and/or execute a R Script from QGIS using Processing in QGIS version 2.0 or Sextante in version 1.8):
see:
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The QGIS project site's How Do I Do That in QGIS should be a good starting point.
You might have a hard time looking for materials that target advanced operations QGIS operations, though. Those usually are part of paid training sessions offered by consulting companies. I think you're better off asking your users what operations they need and then mapping them to the QGIS equivalents, assuming there are any. You can then build your own materials based on those. That way, you'd end up with customized materials that actually meet your users needs.