Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] looking for introductory material on cartography

2009-11-02 Thread G. Allegri
Thanks everyone again for the response my request has had. I didn't
hope in so much sharing :)
It's been important for the ngo itself to recognize the value of this
community and it's open source mind.

I will share the blog I'm going to setup for the course, in which I
will also gather your materials (with the respective citings) and the
one I will prepare.

I'll let you know.
Have a good week,
Giovanni

2009/10/31 Craig Miller craig.mil...@spatialminds.com:
 I didn't see what the original link was, but the Geographer's Craft is an
 excellent resource http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/notes.html

 Craig


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  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.
 

 ah geography not cartography - try
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] looking for introductory material on cartography

2009-11-02 Thread Charlie Schweik

G. Allegri wrote:

I've added myself to
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Education_and_Curriculum_Committee#Membership
Hope to be able to give a help.

giovanni
  
Terrific! Thanks Giovanni. I hope others on this list who have an 
interest in collaborating on educational curriculum and material and who 
are not on the education group list will do the same. The recent 
postings of links to material are examples of the knowledge out there 
that needs to be collected in some more organized way. I also encourage 
each local OSGeo group to have a representative on this list, as well as 
each software team.


Finally, in another effort to try and enhance communication on 
educational issues, we have started an OSGeo educational blog page [1]. 
I'm acting as the editor of that blog -- but if anyone has OSGeo 
educational-related content you'd like me to put on the blog, send them 
to me with a subject line For OSGeo edu blog.


Charlie Schweik
(OSGeo education group chair)

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] looking for introductory material on cartography

2009-10-31 Thread Charlie Schweik

Giovanni,

G. Allegri wrote:

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.
  

Giovanni,
I'm going to send you something separate that I have but I haven't 
checked the content fully to make sure I can publish it on the OSGeo edu 
inventory page.



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
  
Yes, it would. This relates to our discussion about developing some 
OSGeo curriculum material. This next week, I'm going to send out a call 
on the OSGeo edu list to see if we can hold one or more online 
discussions about how to move in this direction. I'm also going to try 
and get some funding to hold, sometime in the next year, a face-to-face 
workshop for some of us to meet and work on a curriculum. Anyone 
interested in joining this please subscribe to the OSGeo education and 
curriculum list.


Cheers
Charlie Schweik

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] looking for introductory material on cartography

2009-10-31 Thread Ian Turton
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:52 PM, G. Allegri gioha...@gmail.com wrote:
 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.


ah geography not cartography - try
https://www.e-education.psu.edu/natureofgeoinfo/ (browse all the PSU
offerings at http://open.ems.psu.edu/courseware)

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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] looking for introductory material on cartography

2009-10-31 Thread Craig Miller
I didn't see what the original link was, but the Geographer's Craft is an
excellent resource http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/notes.html

Craig


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 On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:52 PM, G. Allegri gioha...@gmail.com wrote:
  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.
 
 
 ah geography not cartography - try
 https://www.e-education.psu.edu/natureofgeoinfo/ (browse all the PSU
 offerings at http://open.ems.psu.edu/courseware)
 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] looking for introductory material on cartography

2009-10-30 Thread G. Allegri
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
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] looking for introductory material on cartography

2009-10-30 Thread Ian Turton
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

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] looking for introductory material on cartography

2009-10-30 Thread G. Allegri
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
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