Thanks you very much for your replies. Nimalika, I would really like to have a look at your material. I'm mostly interested in cartography basics, but a look at the rest would be helpful too. I will produce ad-hoc presentations on GIS (and Qgis usage) and GPS, and I could share them after the course.
Jody, thank's for the tip. I will wait for foss4g material. giovanni 2009/10/30 Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com>: > 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 <gioha...@gmail.com> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > -- > Nimalika Fernando > http://nimalika.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss