[OSGeo-Discuss] looking for introductory material on cartography
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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] looking for introductory material on cartography
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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] looking for introductory material on cartography
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 5:05 AM, 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? How about https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog486/? It's CC BY NC SA Ian -- Ian Turton Sent from State College, Pennsylvania, United States ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] looking for introductory material on cartography
Thnaks Ian. That's a really interesting material, but it's out of our course scope. I need something about basic geodesy, coordinates systems, etc. thank you anyway. giovanni ps: wouldn't it be useful to gather such introductory resources under the Education and Curriculum pages of the OSGeo wiki [1]? [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Education_and_Curriculum_Committee 2009/10/30 Ian Turton ijtur...@gmail.com: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 5:05 AM, 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? How about https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog486/? It's CC BY NC SA Ian -- Ian Turton Sent from State College, Pennsylvania, United States ___ 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
