Hi Everyone,
I'm teaching a new course on Mapping Mashups and Beyond in the Fall.
It's for second year undergraduate geographers and I hope it can set
them on a path to being part of the next generation of geospatial data
handlers/modelers/developers. I could use any help in helping me make
this course successful.
What I'm thinking of teaching is
* Exploring digital earth architectures (e.g., Google Maps, Google
Earth, Microsoft Bing Maps, OpenLayers, NASA WorldWind)
* Writing KMLs and KMZs for digital earths
* Contributing volunteered geographic information (VGI)* via Open
Street Map (entering, editing, examining metadata)
* Using geospatial Application Program Interfaces (APIs)
* Geotagging and harvesting other geographic content, for example
via web scraping
* Developing online databases
* Installing and deploying the WAMP software stack
* Developing server/cloud-side geospatial applications
* Collecting real time data (e.g., Twitter)
* Working with location based services, for example with the iPhone
SDK** and ushahidi
* Exploring social, political, and legal issues of using VGI
Remember that these are geographers so they'll have near zero
computing/software engineering skills. Moreover, having been taught GIS,
they'll be biased towards a particular way of thinking about geospatial
data handling: it's only about making maps; it's desktop bound; and it
focuses mainly on spatial analysis. So any advice you have on what I
should be teaching and how I should be teaching it (e.g., how much of
any of these bullet points) would be vastly appreciated!
thanks,
Renee
* I know, I know. I don't like the term either.
**I doubt I'll get to the SDK. It'll be hard enough to get them through
WAMP. Here it's probably just ushahidi.
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