On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Tim Sutton <li...@linfiniti.com> wrote:
> What licenses are these released under? We should be so lucky. There's no mention of licenses so I shall assume they are copyright University of Maine and treat them with that in mind. I'm not sure there's even any obvious licensing of the data sets (but I would suspect they are all US public data - I'll check before I do anything). > I can also point you to > further resources I have found if you are interested (I will need to > root around in my inbox). There is also this http://linfiniti.com/dla > which is all freely available under GPLD and CC-SA licences. Yes, I know there's a lot of good Qgis-based learning materials and if I do put together a syllabus I'll make as much use of them as possible. Thanks for that. My real interest in the UMaine courseware is in finding the bugs and annoyances in Qgis when trying to do some specified set of analyses. I think that when developing a course that uses software package X you tend to do things that are easy in package X, which might well be difficult in package Y. It would be a shame if an open-source fanboy attending UMaine thinks "I can do all this in Qgis!" and then is sadly disappointed when it takes him twice as long as his ArcGIS-wielding colleagues. I might also try and duplicate the analyses using R - there's lots of geospatial functionality in R and it would be interesting to end up with one R script that does the whole course :) Barry _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer