Welcome to training - with Automatic Knowledge

A simple home page for our training materials

You'll find everything you need here

This is a very simple web page with links to the workbooks and data you'll need to complete the training sessions run by Alasdair Rae of Automatic Knowledge. See the links below, and at the top of the page, for the workbooks and data. The third item below links to some other geodata provided by Automatic Knowledge. All the data we use is open data and you do not need permission to use it.

  • Workbooks - this page contains the latest Automatic Knowledge training workbooks.
  • Data - this page contains the data that you'll need to complete the tasks in the workbooks.
  • Other resources - links to other spatial data you may find useful and/or interesting (e.g. US and Great Britain building footprints).

We're making this training material publicly available as part of our mission to help as many people as possible develop their geospatial software skills. Our main training sessions are paid events, available at different price levels depending upon your location in the world, with a 50% discount for students in all countries (this is in addition to country-specific discounts). Some people are happy to work through training material on their own, but without a tutor it can be difficult. If you want to get up to speed with QGIS, we recommend booking some training with us.

Other services we offer

We offer a variety of services, with a focus on data, visualisation, spatial analysis, the built environment, and cartography. We do of course also offer training courses in QGIS, a popular, free and open source GIS package. You may even be doing one as you're reading this! You can see examples of previous work produced by the team on our Portfolio page. Whatever you need, just get in touch and we’ll be happy to discuss how we can make it happen.

Contact us

You can use the Contact page on our main website to get in touch with us. We're always happy to discuss potential projects, training or other ideas.