A colleague who lectures on GIS at the university asked me if I'd give
him some advice on open-source geospatial so he could at least
introduce his third year geography environmental science
undergraduates to the idea. Thanks to the joy of site licenses the
students get to use ACME Proprietary
I guess the question is- what's going to get the interest of/be relevant to
third year undergrads? While licensing is important, it's not, if you're a
student. What you're interested in, is being able to do your work, figure
out what's going to help you get a job etc.
So I'd focus on the daft
An application area often ignored in the GIS community is that of
Computer-Aided-Dispatch, a key element of emergency response, in which
location data is clearly critical.
Our Open Source CAD, Tickets by name, is one example. (www.ticketscad.org)
On 9/30/13, Barry Rowlingson
Here are my slides that I've remixed a few times for various guest
lectures in College GIS courses.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/172165387/Introduction-to-Geospatial-The-open-source-method
I mostly cover how the license makes it different, but students
shouldn't be afraid of it - then how you can do
I forgot to mention I have a 1-2 hour QGIS workshop that covers the
basics of vector and raster with a dataset. Been meaning to post it,
I've done it with OSGeo Live several times. If you want it let me know.
Thanks,
Alex
On 09/30/2013 10:18 AM, Alex Mandel wrote:
Here are my slides that I've
