You may wish to look at some of the materials coming out of the the
FOSS4G conference; I think the "making maps pretty" workshop will be
up shortly as a PDF for example and it has an overview of the
cartography/communication side of maps.
Jody
On 30/10/2009, at 9:06 PM, nimalika fernando wrote:
Hi,
I was involved in doing some introductory level GIS unit ( not for
geography people) in Asia last year.
Once I was asked to do that course, I faced the same situation as
you. We are working under very tight cost constraints and cannot use
costly material or ask people to use such.
I have prepared some presentations for the course with lot of
supporting material from freely available web resources/ diagrams
etc. That does not cover sufficient level of GPS surveying .
There are few basic level tutorials I have prepared on using
software to prepare maps also. I have used QGIS /Udig as the software.
Do you like to have a look at them ?
If so I may be able to provide an access code for this material
available in their website. You may use them if useful for your
purpose.
Goodluck!
Nimalika
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:35 PM, G. Allegri <[email protected]>
wrote:
I'm going to teach a course (mostly as volunteer time) on GIS basics
and GPS surveying for an ONG in Africa. The first two days they will
self-teach cartography basics, then I'll begin from GIS, etc. They
asked me if I could indicate them some links to free introductory
material on cartography (earth shape, coordinates, maps, reference
systems, projections, etc.).
Does anybody know web resources, or could share copyleft
tutorials/manuals/etc on the subject? I've found something googling,
from wikipedia to some sparse course chapters, but I would like to
find structured, clean and easy, stuff. Am I asking too much?
Thanks very much,
Giovanni
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